3D/4D Printing Application for Shape Memory Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 4081
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Dear Colleagues,
Three-dimensional printing belongs to the emerging technologies of our time, offering an extensive freedom of design, as well as the possibility to create individualized objects, e.g., for medical or protection applications.
Some 3D printing materials, such as poly(lactic acid) (PLA) often used in fused deposition modeling, show an additional shape memory effect, meaning that the material “remembers” its original shape after a deformation, being able to recover with the application of an external stimulus, e.g., heat. On the other hand, the area of 4D printing uses this effect to change the shape of an object with time, either once or even bidirectionally. Such materials can be used for a broad range of applications, from design to functional properties, and from medical purposes to soft robotics.
This Special Issue aims at collecting recent material innovations and applications of 3D-printed shape memory materials for shape recovery and 4D printing. Recent experimental and theoretical studies are as welcome as comprehensive reviews regarding these topics.
You are cordially invited to submit manuscripts to this Special Issue, whose topics include, but are not limited to, the following.
Prof. Dr. Andrea Ehrmann
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- shape memory polymers (SMPs)
- shape memory materials
- 3D printing
- recovery properties
- applications of 3D-printed shape memory materials
- 4D printing
- physical/chemical stimuli
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