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Haibao Lu1, Wei Min Huang2, Fei Liang3
1Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments Laboratory, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150080, China. luhb@hit.edu.cn.
Abstract:
In the last few years, we have witnessed significant progress in developing high performance shape memory polymer (SMP) nanocomposites, in particular, for shape recovery activated by indirect heating in the presence of electricity, magnetism, light, radio frequency, microwave and radiation, etc. In this paper, we critically review recent findings in Joule heating of SMP nanocomposites incorporated with nanosized conductive electromagnetic particles by means of nanoscale control via applying an electro- and/or magnetic field. A few different nanoscale design principles to form one-/two-/three- dimensional conductive networks are discussed.
