Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

Shape memory materials are used in a range of applications from electrically conductive actuators to materials for biomedical engineering. Here we’ve brought together a selection of papers covering the fundamental properties and applications of shape memory polymers and nanocomposites.

Journal of Materials Chemistry

1. Thermo-moisture responsive polyurethane shape-memory polymer and composites: a review
2. Biomedical applications of thermally activated shape memory polymers
3. A versatile approach to achieve quintuple-shape memory effect by semi-interpenetrating polymer networks containing broadened glass transition and crystalline segments
4. Soft shape memory in main-chain liquid crystalline elastomers
5. Shape memory epoxy: Composition, structure, properties and shape memory performances
6. Analysis of non-covalent interactions between the nanoparticulate fillers and the matrix polymer as applied to shape memory performance
7. Organic-inorganic chemical hybrids having shape memory effect
8. Thermo-mechanical properties of polystyrene-based shape memory nanocomposites
9. Nanotube fibers for electromechanical and shape memory actuators
10. Modeling the morphology and mechanical behavior of shape memory polyurethanes based on solid-state NMR and synchrotron SAXS/WAXD
11. Shape memory polymers with silicon-containing segments
12. Star-shaped POSS-polycaprolactone polyurethanes and their shape memory performance
13. Shape memory polyurethanes containing azo exhibiting photoisomerization function
14. Organic-inorganic nanocomposite bilayers with triple shape memory effect
15. Nanosize Si anode embedded in super-elastic nitinol (Ni-Ti) shape memory alloy matrix for Li rechargeable batteries
16. High-strain shape memory polymer networks crosslinked by SiO(2)

Soft Matter

1. Conductive shape memory nanocomposites for high speed electrical actuation
2. A new approach to shape memory polymer: design and preparation of poly(methyl methacrylate) composites in the presence of star poly(ethylene glycol)
3. Mechanisms of the multi-shape memory effect and temperature memory effect in shape memory polymers
4. Solvent induced shape recovery of shape memory polymer based on chemically cross-linked poly(vinyl alcohol)
5. A functionally graded shape memory polymer
6. Light-activated shape memory of glassy, azobenzene liquid crystalline polymer networks
7. Study of electroactive shape memory polyurethane-carbon nanotube hybrids
8. Nanopaper enabled shape-memory nanocomposite with vertically aligned nickel nanostrand: controlled synthesis and electrical actuation

If you’d like to read more papers in this area then why now read the Actively Moving Polymers or Emerging themes in soft matter: responsive and active soft materials themed issues.

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