Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 8, Issue 16, Pages 10070-10087Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01295
Keywords
smart materials; stimuli-responsive materials; shape memory polymers; shape memory polymer blends; shape memory polymer composites; shape memory hydrogels; biomedical applications
Funding
- A*STAR Graduate Scholarship from A*STAR
- Monash University Malaysia
- IMRE
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Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are smart and adaptive materials able to recover their shape through an external stimulus. This functionality, combined with the good biocompatibility of polymers, has garnered much interest for biomedical applications. In this review, we discuss the design considerations critical to the successful integration of SMPs for use in vivo. We also highlight recent work on three classes of SMPs: shape memory polymers and blends, shape memory polymer composites, and shape memory hydrogels. These developments open the possibility of incorporating SMPs into device design, which can lead to vast technological improvements in the biomedical field.
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