Nanoscale Design of Nano-Sized Particles in Shape-Memory Polymer Nanocomposites Driven by Electricity

Haibao Lu; Wei Min Huang; Fei Liang; Kai Yu

doi:10.3390/ma6093742

Nanoscale Design of Nano-Sized Particles in Shape-Memory Polymer Nanocomposites Driven by Electricity

Materials (Basel). 2013 Sep 2;6(9):3742-3754. doi: 10.3390/ma6093742.

Authors

Haibao Lu¹, Wei Min Huang², Fei Liang³, Kai Yu⁴

Affiliations

¹ Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments Laboratory, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150080, China. luhb@hit.edu.cn.
² School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore.
³ Department of Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando 32826, FL, USA.
⁴ Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments Laboratory, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150080, China.

Abstract

In the last few years, we have witnessed significant progress in developing high performance shape memory polymer (SMP) nanocomposites, in particular, for shape recovery activated by indirect heating in the presence of electricity, magnetism, light, radio frequency, microwave and radiation, etc. In this paper, we critically review recent findings in Joule heating of SMP nanocomposites incorporated with nanosized conductive electromagnetic particles by means of nanoscale control via applying an electro- and/or magnetic field. A few different nanoscale design principles to form one-/two-/three- dimensional conductive networks are discussed.

Keywords: nanocomposites; nanoscale design; shape-memory polymers; smart materials.

Publication types

Review