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Thermomechanical Formation and Recovery of Nanoindents in a Shape Memory Polymer Studied Using a Heated Tip

Author(s) -

Yang Fuzheng,

Wornyo Edem,

Gall Ken,

King William P.

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

scanning

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.359

H-Index - 47

eISSN - 1932-8745

pISSN - 0161-0457

DOI - 10.1002/sca.20074

Subject(s) - polymer , materials science , shape memory polymer , glass transition , annealing (glass) , atomic force microscopy , acrylate , composite material , nanometre , indentation , atmospheric temperature range , polymer chemistry , nanotechnology , copolymer , thermodynamics , physics

This paper investigates the thermomechanical formation and recovery of nanometer‐scale indents in a shape memory polymer (SMP), studied using a heated atomic force microscope (AFM) tip and hot‐stage atomic force microscopy. The material tested is a tert‐butyl acrylate (tBA)‐based polymer, which has a glass transition temperature of 60 °C. The AFM tip forms indents in the polymer in the temperature range 25–250 °C. The shape recovery of the indents is studied while the polymer is heated up to 100 °C. The temperature required for complete annealing of the indents depends upon the indentation formation conditions, with higher temperature formation corresponding to higher temperature recovery. SCANNING 29: 000–V000, 2007. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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