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Active Moving Polymers and Multifunctional Composites: Shape the Future Structures

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Smart materials can be defined as the materials that have the capability of sensing and reacting to environmental conditions or stimuli. In recent years, a wide range of novel smart materials have been developed, the applications of which now cover various important fields including aerospace, automobile, telecommunications, and so forth. This talk mainly focuses on recent progresses of Active Moving Polymer (i.e. Shape Memory Polymer, SMP), and SMP based composite structures, as well as their applications including aerospace, astronautics and biomedical engineering. This presented work summarizes the recent advances in novel SMP including epoxy-based SMP, styrene-based SMP, cyanate ester-based SMP, polyurethane-based SMP, multiple SMP, design and characterization of SMP composites (SMPCs) filled with nickel chains, short carbon fiber, carbon nanotube chains, carbon nanopaper, and so on. The SMP stimulus methods, including heat, electric, light, magnetic field, and solvent have been introduced. The application of SMPCs used in aircraft morphing and space deployable structures is also investigated.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volume 745)

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129-134

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August 2013

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Jin Song Leng

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Application, Morphing Structures, Multiple Shape Memory Effect, Shape Memory Polymers, Shape Morphing

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