October 25, 2013
Author(s)
Lewis M. Cox, Jason Killgore, Zhengwei Li, Zheng Zhang, Donna C. Hurley, Jianliang Xiao, Yifu Ding
Shape memory polymers have the unique ability to memorize and recover their permanent shapes after being programmed to hold high strain levels up to a few hundred percent. While studies have traditionally focused on utilizing shape memory effects for macro