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A Facile and General Approach to Recoverable High‐Strain Multishape Shape Memory Polymers
Author(s) -
Li Xingjian,
Pan Yi,
Zheng Zhaohui,
Ding Xiaobin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.201700613
Subject(s) - shape memory polymer , materials science , shape memory alloy , copolymer , polymer , acrylate , glass transition , thermosetting polymer , strain (injury) , monomer , composite material , topology (electrical circuits) , mathematics , medicine , combinatorics
Fabricating a single polymer network with no need to design complex structures to achieve an ideal combination of tunable high‐strain multiple‐shape memory effects and highly recoverable shape memory property is a great challenge for the real applications of advanced shape memory devices. Here, a facile and general approach to recoverable high‐strain multishape shape memory polymers is presented via a random copolymerization of acrylate monomers and a chain‐extended multiblock copolymer crosslinker. As‐prepared shape memory networks show a large width at the half‐peak height of the glass transition, far wider than current classical multishape shape memory polymers. A combination of tunable high‐strain multishape memory effect and as high as 1000% recoverable strain in a single chemical‐crosslinking network can be obtained. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first thermosetting material with a combination of highly recoverable strain and tunable high‐strain multiple‐shape memory effects.