In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Shape memory polymers (SMPs), as a class of programmable stimuli-responsive shape
changing polymers, are attracting increasing attention from the standpoint of both …

Additive manufacturing (AM)(also known as 3D printing) has enabled the customized
fabrication of objects with complex geometries and functionalities in mechanical and …

We present a new 4D printing approach that can create high resolution (up to a few
microns), multimaterial shape memory polymer (SMP) architectures. The approach is based …

Real-time monitoring of strain/stress in polymers is a big challenge to date. Herein, we for
the first time report an ESIPT (excited-state intramolecular proton transfer)-based …

Shape memory polymers and their composites are capable to hold a temporary shape and
recover to the original shape upon exposure to a particular external stimulus. The stimulus …

Research on shape–memory polymers (SMPs) has been actively conducted for more than
three decades. Recently, interest in this area has intensified. Even though there have been a …

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This review summarizes progress toward programming two-dimensional (2D) polymer
sheets which respond to a variety of external stimuli to form three-dimensional (3D) shapes …

New materials that have the ability to reversibly adapt to their environment and possess a
wide range of responses ranging from self-healing to mechanical work are continually …