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Shape-memory polymers for multiple applications in the materials world
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In this paper, a brief review of the recent trends in the field of shape-memory polymers is presented with particular focus on their structure, shapememory effects and working mechanism, and a special attention is paid to smart multi-responsive and multi-functional SMP materials as emerging technological class.About:
This article is published in European Polymer Journal.The article was published on 2016-07-01. It has received 238 citations till now.read more
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Significance of Nanomaterials in Wearables: A Review on Wearable Actuators and Sensors.
W.A.D.M. Jayathilaka,Kun Qi,Kun Qi,Yanli Qin,Yanli Qin,Amutha Chinnappan,William Serrano-Garcia,William Serrano-Garcia,Chinnappan Baskar,Hongbo Wang,Jianxin He,Shizhong Cui,Sylvia Thomas,Seeram Ramakrishna +13 more
TL;DR: This review looks into the contribution of nanomaterials and nanocomposites to wearable technology with a focus on wearable sensors and actuators.
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Additive manufacturing — A review of 4D printing and future applications
TL;DR: A review of the current materials available for 3D printing that enable the emergence of 4D printing, a "smart material" that responds in a programmed way to an external stimuli can be found in this paper.
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Functional Fibers and Fabrics for Soft Robotics, Wearables, and Human-Robot Interface.
TL;DR: Effective integration between the electronic components with garments, human skin, and living organisms is illustrated, presenting multifunctional platforms with self-powered potential for human-robot interactions and biomedicine.
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4D printing reconfigurable, deployable and mechanically tunable metamaterials
Chen Yang,Manish Boorugu,Andrew Dopp,Jie Ren,Raymond Martin,Daehoon Han,Wonjoon Choi,Howon Lee +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented geometrically reconfigurable, functionally deployable, and mechanically tunable lightweight metamaterials created through four-dimensional (4D) printing.
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4D printed thermally activated self-healing and shape memory polycaprolactone-based polymers
TL;DR: In this paper, a shape memory polymer with thermally induced healing abilities is first presented and achieved by digital light projection (DLP) technology, where shape memory and self-healing functionalities are thermally triggered and obtained respectively using polycaprolactone (PCL) chains and 2-ureido-4[1H]-pyrimidinone (UPy) units co-crosslinked in this newly prepared material.
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