Polymers for additive manufacturing and 4D-printing: Materials, methodologies, and biomedical applications

CM González-Henríquez, MA Sarabia-Vallejos… - Progress in Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as additive manufacturing, permits the fabrication
of fully customized objects with a high level of geometrical complexity at reduced fabrication …

Mechanical behaviors and applications of shape memory polymer and its composites

W Zhao, N Li, L Liu, J Leng, Y Liu - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Shape memory polymer (SMP) and SMP composites (SMPC) can memorize the permanent
shape and recover from the temporary shape to the permanent shape when stimulated by …

Multimaterial 4D printing with tailorable shape memory polymers

Q Ge, AH Sakhaei, H Lee, CK Dunn, NX Fang… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

Recent progress in shape memory polymer: New behavior, enabling materials, and mechanistic understanding

Q Zhao, HJ Qi, T Xie - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Shape memory polymers (SMPs), as a class of programmable stimuli-responsive shape
changing polymers, are attracting increasing attention from the standpoint of both …

Active materials by four-dimension printing

Q Ge, HJ Qi, ML Dunn - Applied Physics Letters, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We advance a paradigm of printed active composite materials realized by directly printing
glassy shape memory polymer fibers in an elastomeric matrix. We imbue the active …

Recent advances in shape–memory polymers: Structure, mechanism, functionality, modeling and applications

J Hu, Y Zhu, H Huang, J Lu - Progress in polymer science, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

Laser-based additively manufactured polymers: a review on processes and mechanical models

R Brighenti, MP Cosma, L Marsavina… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Springer
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a broad definition of various techniques to produce layer-by-
layer objects made of different materials. In this paper, a comprehensive review of laser …

Current status of 4D printing technology and the potential of light-reactive smart materials as 4D printable materials

SK Leist, J Zhou - Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The onset of multi-material 3D printing and the combination of smart materials into the
printable material has led to the development of an exciting new technology called 4D …

Micro hot embossing of thermoplastic polymers: a review

L Peng, Y Deng, P Yi, X Lai - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Micro hot embossing of thermoplastic polymers is a promising process to fabricate high
precision and high quality features in micro/nano scale. This technology has experienced …

Mechanistic understanding of case-hardening and texture development during drying of food materials

T Gulati, AK Datta - Journal of Food Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
A mechanistic framework for quality development such as shrinkage and case hardening in
drying would allow new insights making the final quality in a drying process more …