...Laurane Roumy; Fabienne Touchard; Damien Marchand; Thuy Quynh Truong Hoang; Francisca Martinez-Hergueta Purpose In the field of 4D printing, shape memory polymers are gaining more and more interest, thanks to their large deformability and ease of manufacturing, compared to their metallic alloy...

...Reza Gholizadeh Ledari; Abbas Zolfaghari Purpose This paper aims to present an innovative approach to fabricating an electrically responsive shape memory polymer (SMP). Design/methodology/approach Polymers that change shape over time when a stimulus is applied are known as SMPs. It uses...

...Yu Chen; Irina Tatiana Garces; Tian Tang; Cagri Ayranci Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate an innovative, fast and low-cost method to fabricate customized stents using polyurethane-based shape memory polymers composite reinforced by cellulose nanocrystal (CNC), achieved...

... characterization of standard samples printed on FDM with acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), shape memory polymer (SMP; make Polyflex^TM) and ABS/Polyflex^TM blend and a comparative study from AM view point. Design/methodology/approach A low-cost desktop-based FDM setup was used...

...Carlos Alejandro Garcia Rosales; Hoejin Kim; Mario F. Garcia Duarte; Luis Chavez; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng; Yirong Lin Purpose Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are classified as smart materials owing to their inherent stimulus-induced response. SMPs are capable of recovering partially or totally to its...

...Carlos Alejandro Garcia Rosales; Hoejin Kim; Mario F. Garcia Duarte; Luis Chavez; Mariana Castañeda; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng; Yirong Lin Purpose Shape memory polymer (SMP) is capable of recovering its original shape from a high degree of deformation by applying an external stimulus such as thermal...