Shape-Memory Polymeric Artificial Muscles: Mechanisms, Applications and Challenges

Shape-memory materials are smart materials that can remember an original shape and return to their unique state from a deformed secondary shape in the presence of an appropriate stimulus. This property allows these materials to be used as shape-memory artificial muscles, which form a subclass of art...

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Main Authors: Yujie Chen, Chi Chen, Hafeez Ur Rehman, Xu Zheng, Hua Li, Hezhou Liu, Mikael S. Hedenqvist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Series:Molecules
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/25/18/4246