High performance shape memory polyurethane synthesized with high molecular weight polyol as the soft segment

Applied Sciences (Switzerland)

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 535-548

  Ahmad, Manzoor ^a   Xu, Bin ^b   Purnawali, Hendra ^c   Fu, Yongqing ^b,d   Huang, Weimin ^c   Miraftab, Mohsen ^a   Luo, Jikui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High molecular weight; Low recovery stress; Polyurethanes; Thermal responsive SMPUs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882716839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/app2020535     Document Type: Article

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