Shape-memory polymers for microelectromechanical systems

By Ken Gall, P. Kreiner, David Turner, M. Hulse. Journal of microelectromechanical systems, 2004

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Review of electro-active shape-memory polymer composite (2009, background): “The development in SMPs have grown rapidly in recent years, owing to their excellent structural versatility, low manufacturing cost, easy in processing, high elastic deformation (strain up to more than 200%, and low recovery temperature [3, 4 ].”
Thermally actuated shape-memory polymers: Experiments, theory, and numerical simulations (2010, background): “Langer, 2002; Metcalfe et al., 2003; Baer et al., 2007b), microsystems (e.g., Maitland et al., 2002; Metzger et al., 2002; Gall et al., 2004), re-writable media for data storage (e.g., Vettiger et al., 2002; Wornyo et al., 2007), and self-deployable space structures (Campbell et al., 2005).”
Shape-memory polymers and their composites: Stimulus methods and applications (2011, background): “Shape-memory behaviors can be observed in several polymers, including polyurethane-based polymers [115,116], styrene-based polymers, epoxy polymer [117,118] and others.”