Artificial muscles made of chiral two-way shape memory polymer fibers

2016 ◽  
Vol 109 (18) ◽  
pp. 183701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianxi Yang ◽  
Jizhou Fan ◽  
Guoqiang Li
Keyword(s):  
Shape Memory ◽  
Shape Memory Polymer ◽  
Polymer Fibers ◽  
Artificial Muscles

Fabrication and Evaluation of Shape Memory Polymer Fibers for Application to Artificial Muscles

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (0) ◽  
pp. J11117
Author(s):  
Masato SAKUMA ◽  
Shuichi WAKIMOTO ◽  
Koya MATSUSHITA ◽  
Takefumi KANDA
Keyword(s):  
Shape Memory ◽  
Shape Memory Polymer ◽  
Polymer Fibers ◽  
Artificial Muscles

Electrospun shape-memory polymer fibers and their applications

2021 ◽  
pp. 567-596
Author(s):  
Yuliang Xia ◽  
Fenghua Zhang ◽  
Linlin Wang ◽  
Yanju Liu ◽  
Jinsong Leng
Keyword(s):  
Shape Memory ◽  
Shape Memory Polymer ◽  
Polymer Fibers

McKibben artificial muscle realizing variable contraction characteristics using helical shape-memory polymer fibers

2019 ◽  
Vol 295 ◽  
pp. 637-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeyoshi Yahara ◽  
Shuichi Wakimoto ◽  
Takefumi Kanda ◽  
Kouya Matsushita
Keyword(s):  
Shape Memory ◽  
Shape Memory Polymer ◽  
Artificial Muscle ◽  
Polymer Fibers

scholarly journals Shape-Memory Polymeric Artificial Muscles: Mechanisms, Applications and Challenges

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (18) ◽  
pp. 4246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujie Chen ◽  
Chi Chen ◽  
Hafeez Ur Rehman ◽  
Xu Zheng ◽  
Hua Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shape Memory ◽  
Smart Materials ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Shape Memory Polymer ◽  
Shape Memory Polymers ◽  
Artificial Muscles ◽  
Linkage Design ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Liquid Crystal Elastomers ◽  
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Shape-memory materials are smart materials that can remember an original shape and return to their unique state from a deformed secondary shape in the presence of an appropriate stimulus. This property allows these materials to be used as shape-memory artificial muscles, which form a subclass of artificial muscles. The shape-memory artificial muscles are fabricated from shape-memory polymers (SMPs) by twist insertion, shape fixation via Tm or Tg, or by liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs). The prepared SMP artificial muscles can be used in a wide range of applications, from biomimetic and soft robotics to actuators, because they can be operated without sophisticated linkage design and can achieve complex final shapes. Recently, significant achievements have been made in fabrication, modelling, and manipulation of SMP-based artificial muscles. This paper presents a review of the recent progress in shape-memory polymer-based artificial muscles. Here we focus on the mechanisms of SMPs, applications of SMPs as artificial muscles, and the challenges they face concerning actuation. While shape-memory behavior has been demonstrated in several stimulated environments, our focus is on thermal-, photo-, and electrical-actuated SMP artificial muscles.

Nanosilica-treated shape memory polymer fibers to strengthen wellbore cement

2021 ◽  
Vol 196 ◽  
pp. 107646
Author(s):  
Livio Santos ◽  
Arash Dahi Taleghani ◽  
Guoqiang Li
Keyword(s):  
Shape Memory ◽  
Shape Memory Polymer ◽  
Polymer Fibers
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