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Recent advances and challenges in designing stimuli-responsive polymers
Fang Liu,Marek W. Urban +1 more
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In this article, a review examines physico-chemical requirements necessary to achieve stimuli-responsiveness in heterogeneous polymer networks as well as discusses recent developments and future trends while individual structural components of polymeric networks are responsible for localized chainresponsiveness, desirable spatial and energetic network properties are necessary for collective and orchestrated responsiveness to external or internal stimuli.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 866 citations till now.read more
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Using the dynamic bond to access macroscopically responsive structurally dynamic polymers
TL;DR: The emergence of a new trend in the design of adaptive materials that involves the use of reversible chemistry to programme a response that originates at the most fundamental (molecular) level is described.
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Self-healing polymeric materials
Ying Yang,Marek W. Urban +1 more
TL;DR: This review outlines the recent advances in the field of self-healing polymers, and the primary classes are the covalent bonding, supramolecular assemblies, ionic interactions, chemo-mechanical self- healing, and shape memory polymers.
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New directions in thermoresponsive polymers.
TL;DR: By highlighting recent examples of newly developed thermoresponsive polymer systems, it is hoped to promote the development of new generations of smart materials.
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Recent progress in shape memory polymer: New behavior, enabling materials, and mechanistic understanding
Qian Zhao,H. Jerry Qi,Tao Xie +2 more
TL;DR: Progress in new shape memory enabling mechanisms and triggering methods, variations of in shape memory forms (shape memory surfaces, hydrogels, and microparticles), newshape memory behavior (multi-SME and two-way-S ME), and novel fabrication methods are reviewed.
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A review of stimuli-responsive shape memory polymer composites
Harper Meng,Guoqiang Li +1 more
TL;DR: An up-to-date review on shape memory polymer composites with potential applications in biomedical devices, aerospace, textiles, civil engineering, bionics engineering, energy, electronic engineering, and household products is presented.
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