Shape Memory Plastics
from the polymerdirt-lives! dept
It's been a while since we've posted any "polymerdirt" articles, and our resident soon-to-be polymer chemist went and changed careers on us. But, for old times sake, here's an article about shape memory plastics, which are polymer structures that can be bent and twisted, but at certain temperatures will automatically return to a certain shape. The article talks about how useful these can be in medical devices, and other things like robots. Of course, I'm sure our former polymer chemist expert will enlighten us on where the article went wrong.
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still into polymers...
So these polymers are kinda cool. What they don't tell you that it's not like you can even lift a paperclip with these plastics. Developing the super-cool shape-memory plastics of the future is still a ways off. Also, they don't seem to mention that shape memory plastics have been around (and commercially important) for decades. What about heat-shrink insulation? That's technically a shape-memory polymer.... Are you going to build robots with it? Sure, if you need to splice together some wiring.... Artificial muscles aren't quite there yet.
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for polymer people...
this article on antibacterial plastic.... To actually read the artice, try entering 2157474 for the username and password...
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Re: still into polymers...
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Thanks
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you're all sad bastards
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