Potential bio-medical and commercial applications of cold hibernated elastic memory (CHEM) self-deployable foam structures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5648, Issue , 2005, Pages 397-405

  Sokolowski, Witold ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expandable structures; Glass transition temperature Tg; Open cellular structures; Shape memory polymers

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; DAMPING; ELASTICITY; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; GLASS TRANSITION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EXPANDABLE STRUCTURES; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE TG; OPEN CELLULAR STRUCTURES; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS;

FOAMS;

EID: 18744371601     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.593931     Document Type: Conference Paper

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