Electrical conductivity of thermoresponsive shape-memory polymer with embedded micron sized Ni powder chains

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A Brief Review of Stimulus-active Polymers Responsive to Thermal, Light, Magnetic, Electric, and Water/Solvent Stimuli (2010, background): “…systems (Gall et al., 2002), self-deployable sun sails in spacecrafts (Sokolowski et al., 1999), miniature manipulator (Smela et al., 1995), actuators and sensors (Bar-Cohen and Zhang, 2008; Leng et al., 2008a), active sound absorbing materials, flexible speakers (Bar-Cohen, 2001), and many more.”
A review of shape memory polymer composites and blends (2009, background): “[18,169,170] investigated and improved the electrical conductivity of SMPUs by forming a conductive Ni powder chain in SMPs under”
Shape memory polymers for composites (2018, background): “For example, nickle powder is formed to chain under magnetic field [10,11], or using carbon black to connect short carbon fibers can increase the conductance by 100 times [104].”
Review of electro-active shape-memory polymer composite (2009, background): “3, right column), which indicates the possibility of using chained SMPs for cyclic actuation [21].”