In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are smart materials capable of changing their shapes in a
predefined manner under a proper applied stimulus and have gained considerable interest …

The need to support the two most basic functions [three-dimensional (3D)–shaped support
and actuation] independently for a typical robot demands that at least two components …

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are capable of changing their shapes in a pre-defined
manner under a stimulus, and have gained considerable interest in the past decades …

The reversible and click nature of Diels–Alder (DA) reactions has made them ideal
candidates to design materials with nonconventional properties. Most commonly, the …

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted wide attention over the past few decades
due to their fantastic applications in modern life. Nevertheless, excellent self-healing …

To enable repeated intrinsic self-healing of wider cracks in polymers, a proof-of-concept
approach is verified in the present work. It operates through two-way shape memory effect …

Abstract Shape-memory polymers (SMPs), as an important class of smart materials, have
been attracting interests from both academia and industries. Over the past two decades, the …

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 …

Approaches for the synthesis and processing of responsive materials that combine robust
mechanical properties and the ability to undergo shape change in response to a stimulus …