After solving several challenges, Embolization Inc. sees a promising future for shape memory polymers in other medical ...

Engineers have created shape-memory materials made of ceramic rather than of traditional metal. The development opens a new range of applications, especially for actuators in high-temperature ...

Shape-memory materials are nifty little things that can recover their original shape after having been altered. Researchers have now been able to create shape-memory textiles from recycled wool ...

X-ray analysis and new computations are helping to explain how shape-memory materials, which change shape in response various types of signals, work at the microscopic level.

Shape memory polymers are a fascinating field of polymer research. Such materials have a wide range of uses, including pharmaceutical, commercial, aerospace, textile products, and other industries.

What is special about the new material is that, unlike previous shape-memory materials, it consists of a polymer and droplets of a so-called magnetorheological fluid embedded in it.

While shape-memory materials do have some interesting potential applications, many of them require the application of heat in order to change shape – and that could cause problems, in ...

Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have invented a wool-like material that remembers shape and changes form when soaked in water.

Researchers have developed a biocompatible material that can be 3D printed into any shape and pre-programmed with reversible shape memory. The material is made using keratin, a fibrous protein ...

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