An overview of elastic polymeric shape memory materials for comfort fitting

In this paper, we briefly review the recent progress in comfort fitting using elastic polymeric shape memory materials (SMMs). First, the required features on elastic SMMs for comfort fitting are discussed. A few types of polymeric SMMs (including some commercially available ones), which have these features, are presented. A number of prototypes made of these SMMs are used to demonstrate the feasibility to achieve the concept of comfort fitting in a one-for-all manner, i.e., one sized product to comfort fit any individuals. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.