Multimaterial 4D Printing with Tailorable Shape Memory Polymers

Biomimetic 4D printing

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Multi-shape active composites by 3D printing of digital shape memory polymers

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3D Printed Reversible Shape Changing Components with Stimuli Responsive Materials

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4D Printing with Mechanically Robust, Thermally Actuating Hydrogels

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Continuous liquid interface production of 3D objects

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A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

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Pattern Transformation of Heat-Shrinkable Polymer by Three-Dimensional (3D) Printing Technique

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Sequential Self-Folding Structures by 3D Printed Digital Shape Memory Polymers

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Pneumatic Networks for Soft Robotics that Actuate Rapidly

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Stimuli-Responsive Theragrippers for Chemomechanical Controlled Release

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Ultralight, ultrastiff mechanical metamaterials

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Active origami by 4D printing

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Functional stimuli responsive hydrogel devices by self-folding

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Cephalopod-inspired design of electro-mechano-chemically responsive elastomers for on-demand fluorescent patterning

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Active Printed Materials for Complex Self-Evolving Deformations

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Active materials by four-dimension printing

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Digital cameras with designs inspired by the arthropod eye

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Digital material fabrication using mask‐image‐projection‐based stereolithography

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Stretchable, Transparent, Ionic Conductors

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Photo-origami—Bending and folding polymers with light

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Prescribed Pattern Transformation in Swelling Gel Tubes by Elastic Instability

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Design and optimization of a light-emitting diode projection micro-stereolithography three-dimensional manufacturing system

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Prediction of temperature-dependent free recovery behaviors of amorphous shape memory polymers

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Multi-material bio-fabrication of hydrogel cantilevers and actuators with stereolithography

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A 3D finite deformation constitutive model for amorphous shape memory polymers: A multi-branch modeling approach for nonequilibrium relaxation processes

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A solution for folding rigid tall shopping bags

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Two-way reversible shape memory effects in a free-standing polymer composite

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Three-dimensional photovoltaics

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A thermo-mechanically-coupled large-deformation theory for amorphous polymers in a temperature range which spans their glass transition

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Multi-material stereolithography

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Thermally actuated shape-memory polymers: Experiments, theory, and numerical simulations

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Effects of thermal rates on the thermomechanical behaviors of amorphous shape memory polymers

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First jump of microgel; actuation speed enhancement by elastic instability

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High-Strain Shape-Memory Polymers

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Photomechanics of light-activated polymers

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Two- and three-dimensional folding of thin film single-crystalline silicon for photovoltaic power applications

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Tetherless thermobiochemically actuated microgrippers

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Fiber reinforced shape-memory polymer composite and its application in a deployable hinge

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Strong, Tailored, Biocompatible Shape-Memory Polymer Networks

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A thermo-mechanically coupled theory for large deformations of amorphous polymers. Part I: Formulation

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A thermo-mechanically coupled theory for large deformations of amorphous polymers. Part II: Applications

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A thermoviscoelastic model for amorphous shape memory polymers: Incorporating structural and stress relaxation

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Effect of chemical structure and crosslinking density on the thermo-mechanical properties and toughness of (meth)acrylate shape memory polymer networks

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Finite deformation thermo-mechanical behavior of thermally induced shape memory polymers

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