Advances in shape memory polymers

✍ Scribed by Jinlian Hu

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 365
• Series: Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles 146
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Shape memory materials are immensely useful because of their capability to recover their original shapes upon exposure to an external stimulus such as heat, moisture, light or a magnetic field. This book reviews key recent research in shape memory polymers, their properties and applications. Topics include the relationship between morphological structures and shape memory properties; high performance Tg and Tm type shape memory polymers; structures of shape memory polymers with supramolecular switches; and the thermally-active and moisture-active shape memory effect of supermolecular shape memory polymers.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction to shape memory polymers; Tm type shape memory polymers; Tg type shape memory polymers; High performance type shape memory polymers prepared by modified two-step polymerization; Supramolecular shape memory polymers; Supramolecular shape memory polymers containing pyridine; Thermally-induced properties of supramolecular shape memory polymers containing pyridine; Moisture-induced properties of supramolecular shape memory polymers containing pyridine; Shape memory polymers with novel functions: Electro-active, magnetically-active, light-adaptive and phase change materials; Shape memory finishing treatments for smart textiles; Manufacture of Tg and Tm shape memory polyurethane (SMPU) polymers; Future developments in shape memory polymers.

✦ Subjects

Химия и химическая промышленность;Высокомолекулярные соединения;