Reconfigurable photonic crystals enabled by pressure-responsive shape-memory polymers
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Smart shape-memory polymers can memorize and recover their permanent shape in response to an external stimulus (for example, heat). They have been extensively exploited for a wide spectrum of applications ranging from biomedical devices to aerospace morphing structures. However, most of the existing shape-memory polymers are thermoresponsive and their performance is hindered by heat-demanding programming and recovery steps. Although pressure is an easily adjustable process variable such as temperature, pressure-responsive shape-memory polymers are largely unexplored. Here we report a series of shape-memory polymers that enable unusual 'cold' programming and instantaneous shape recovery triggered by applying a contact pressure at ambient conditions. Moreover, the interdisciplinary integration of scientific principles drawn from two disparate fields--the fast-growing photonic crystal and shape-memory polymer technologies--enables fabrication of reconfigurable photonic crystals and simultaneously provides a simple and sensitive optical technique for investigating the intriguing shape-memory effects at nanoscale.
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SMPs are programmable (multi)stimuli-responsive shape-changing polymers and can recover their initial shape upon direct or Joule heating, radiation and laser heating, microwaves, pressure, moisture, solvent or solvent vapors, and changes in pH.
“SMPs also happen to be programmable (multi)stimuli-responsive shape-changing polymers and possess the remarkable property to recover their initial shape upon direct or Joule heating, radiation and laser heating, microwaves [2,3], pressure [4], moisture, solvent or solvent vapors [5] and change in the pH values [6].”
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- Authors
- Fang, Y., Ni, Y., Leo, S.-Y., Taylor, C., Basile, V., & Jiang, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (US)
- National Research Council (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Jiang, Peng
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2015-06-15
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7416-7416
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4490579
- OpenAlex
- W2267974390
- Cited by
- 301
- References
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- 24.56
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency (HDTRA1-15-1-0022, HDTRA1)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer composites and self-healing
- Keywords
- shape memory polymers, shape recovery, optical sensing, stimuli-responsive materials
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