Shape-memory properties of segmented polymers containing aramid hard segments and polycaprolactone soft segments

Polymers

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 71-85

  Schuh, Christian ^a   Schuh, Kerstin ^a   Lechmann, Maria C ^a   Garnier, Louis ^a   Kraft, Arno ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aramid; Polycaprolactone; Shape memory polymer

Indexed keywords

ARAMID; CHAIN EXTENDERS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; FLOW TEMPERATURE; HARD SEGMENTS; MULTIBLOCK COPOLYMER; RUBBERY PLATEAUS; SHAPE-MEMORY POLYMER; SHAPE-MEMORY PROPERTIES; SOFT SEGMENTS;

DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; THERMOANALYSIS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 79952827679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym2020071     Document Type: Article

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