Feasibility study of polyurethane shape-memory polymer actuators for pressure bandage application
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Feasibility study of polyurethane shape-memory polymer actuators for pressure bandage application.
The feasibility of laboratory-synthesized polyurethane-based shape-memory polymer (SMPU) actuators has been investigated for possible application in medical pressure bandages where gradient pressure is required between the ankle and the knee for treatment of leg ulcers. In this study, using heat as the stimulant, SMPU strip actuators have been subjected to gradual and cyclic stresses; their rec...
متن کاملShape xity and shape recovery of polyurethane shape-memory polymer foams
The thermomechanical properties of polyurethane shape memory polymer (SMP) foams were investigated experimentally. The results obtained can be summarized as follows. (1) By cooling the foam after compressive deformation at high temperature, stress decreases and the deformed shape is xed. Stress decreases markedly in the region of temperature below the glass transition temperature Tg during th...
متن کاملTemperature-memory polymer actuators.
Reading out the temperature-memory of polymers, which is their ability to remember the temperature where they were deformed recently, is thus far unavoidably linked to erasing this memory effect. Here temperature-memory polymer actuators (TMPAs) based on cross-linked copolymer networks exhibiting a broad melting temperature range (ΔT(m)) are presented, which are capable of a long-term temperatu...
متن کاملShape recovery and irrecoverable strain control in polyurethane shape-memory polymer.
In shape-memory polymers, large strain can be fixed at a low temperature and thereafter recovered at a high temperature. If the shape-memory polymer is held at a high temperature for a long time, the irrecoverable strain can attain a new intermediate shape between the shape under the maximum stress and the primary shape. Irrecoverable strain control can be applied to the fabrication of a shape-...
متن کاملMagnetic Shape Memory Actuators for Fluidic Applications
Magnetic Shape Memory (MSM) actuators represent a new type of smart electromagnetic actuators where the MSM material elongates and contracts in a magnetic field. The MSM material has the ability to change its size or shape very fast and many million times repeatedly. Based on internally designed and produced Magnetic Shape Memory materials, the ETO GROUP has developed its new MAGNETOSHAPE® tech...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1468-6996,1878-5514
DOI: 10.1088/1468-6996/13/1/015006