Smart polymers with “life-like” properties: due to dynamic chemical bonds the micrometric 3D structures can grow eight-fold in just a few hours and harden. Scale: 20 micrometres (µm).

This capacity is known as the shape memory effect (SME), and it may occur in shape memory alloys (SMAs) and polymers (SMPs), but it is also feasible in shape memory hybrids (SMHs). Four-dimensional ...

Scientists develop fully biobased, 4D-printable shape memory polymers from plant-derived acrylates, enabling tunable, multistimuli-responsive actuation with applications in soft robotics, medical ...

Research Highlight Published: 11 July 2011 Polymer actuators: Shape memory NPG Asia Materials (2011) Cite this article ...

A recent study in Nature Communications presents a new class of shape memory polymer (SMP) surfaces embedded with nanotips. These surfaces feature tunable nanoscale roughness, enabling adjustable ...