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The wikipedia article on shape memory polymers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape-memory_polymer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape-memory_polymer seems prett
by raattgift 3y ago
The wikipedia article on shape memory polymers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape-memory_polymer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape-memory_polymer seems pretty decent.
A highlight:
"Recently, a new manufacturing process, mnemosynation, was developed at Georgia Tech to enable mass production of crosslinked SMP devices, which would otherwise be cost-prohibitive using traditional thermoset polymerization techniques.[40] Mnemosynation was named for the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, and is the controlled imparting of memory on an amorphous thermoplastic materials utilizing radiation-induced covalent crosslinking, much like vulcanization imparts recoverable elastomeric behavior on rubbers using sulfur crosslinks. Mnemosynation combines advances in ionizing radiation and tuning the mechanical properties of SMPs to enable traditional plastics processing"