Shape memory polymer nanocomposites

By Ken Gall, Martin L. Dunn, Yiping Liu, D. Finch, M. Lake, N. Munshi. 2002

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A Brief Review of Stimulus-active Polymers Responsive to Thermal, Light, Magnetic, Electric, and Water/Solvent Stimuli (2010, background): “, 1998), biomimetic devices (Calvert and Ricke, 1996; Xie and Xiao, 2008), heat shrinkable materials for electronics packaging (Charlesby, 1960), micro-electro-mechanical systems (Gall et al., 2002), self-deployable sun sails in spacecrafts (Sokolowski et al.”
A review of shape memory polymer composites and blends (2009, methodology): “[26] prepared nano SiC/epoxy, specially for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMs) applications where structure size scales are in the range of a few hundred microns to several millimeters.”
Polymer and ceramic nanocomposites for aerospace applications (2017, background): “25a (Gall et al. 2002).”
Remotely actuated polymer nanocomposites—stress-recovery of carbon-nanotube-filled thermoplastic elastomers (2004, background): “Addition of up to 40–50 wt% is necessary to achieve substantial property enhancements, even in the case of nanosized fillers, such as SiC particles—a 50% increase of constrained bending recovery required 20 wt% SiC (ref”
Review of electro-active shape-memory polymer composite (2009, background): “However, their recovery can be triggered by various external stimuli, not only heat [5–9] such as SMAs, but also light [10,11], electricity [12–19], magnetic field [20–22] or solution [23–26], etc.”