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Recent Advances in the Additive Manufacturing of Stimuli‐Responsive Soft Polymers
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Muhammad Yasir Khalid ,
Mokarram Hossain ,
Peerzada Ifham Rasool,
Rehan Umer,
Seeram Ramakrishna
Advanced Engineering Materials, Volume: 25, Issue: 21
Swansea University Author:
Mokarram Hossain
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DOI (Published version): 10.1002/adem.202301074
Abstract
Stimuli-responsive polymers (SRPs) are special types of soft materials, which have been extensively used for developing flexible actuators, soft robots, wearable devices, sensors, self-expanding structures, and biomedical devices, thanks to their ability to change their shapes and functional propert...
| Published in: | Advanced Engineering Materials |
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| ISSN: | 1438-1656 1527-2648 |
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Wiley
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64151 |
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Stimuli-responsive polymers (SRPs) are special types of soft materials, which have been extensively used for developing flexible actuators, soft robots, wearable devices, sensors, self-expanding structures, and biomedical devices, thanks to their ability to change their shapes and functional properties in response to external stimuli including light, humidity, heat, pH, electric field, solvent, and magnetic field or combinations of two or more of these stimuli. In recent years, additive manufacturing (AM) aka three-dimensional (3D) printing technology of these SRPs, also known as four-dimensional (4D) printing, has gained phenomenal attention in different engineering fields, thanks to its unique ability to develop complex, personalized, and innovative structures, which undergo twisting, elongating, swelling, rolling, shrinking, bending, spiraling, and other complex morphological transformations. Herein, an effort has been made to provide insightful information about the AM techniques, type of SRPs, and their applications including, but not limited to tissue engineering, soft robots, bionics, actuators, sensors, construction, and smart textiles. This article also incorporates the current challenges and prospects, hoping to provide an insightful basis for the utilization of this technology in different engineering fields. It is expected that the amalgamation of 3D printing with SRPs would provide unparalleled advantages in different engineering arenas. |
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Additive manufacturing, 3D/4D printing, stimuli-responsive polymers, smart polymers, biomedical applications |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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Swansea University |
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21 |