The past decade has witnessed remarkable advances in stimuli-responsive shape memory
polymers (SMPs) with potential applications in biomedical devices, aerospace, textiles, civil …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This review paper summarizes the recent research progress in the underlying mechanisms
behind the shape memory effect (SME) and some newly discovered shape memory …

In this paper, the triple shape memory effects (SMEs) observed in chemically cross-linked
polyethylene (PE)/polypropylene (PP) blends with cocontinuous architecture are …

A series of polyimides (PIs) with different chain structures were synthesized by a two-step
method. The influences of chain conformations on their thermal and mechanical properties …

It poses a huge challenge to expand the application gallery of rubbers into advanced smart
materials and achieve the reinforcement simultaneously. In the present work, inspired by the …

In this brief review, an introduction of the underlying mechanisms for the shape memory
effect (SME) and various shape memory phenomena in polymers is presented first. After …

A type of polyurethane with a thermo-induced triple shape memory effect and a pH-sensitive
dual shape memory effect has been developed. Firstly, a series of polyurethanes were …