Controlling tackiness of shape memory polyurethanes for textile applications

Veloso, António; Laza, José Manuel; Vilas-Vilela, José Luis

doi:10.1007/s10965-021-02687-8

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“…When the SMPs are produced in fibrous form and endowed with shape memory functionality by shape-programming, they give rise to a new type of functional fiber—shape-memory polymer fibers (SMPfs). Due to the intrinsic advantages in fibrous materials, such as high specific surface area, adjustable porosity, excellent mechanical properties, and structural designability, SMPfs have found a plethora of applications in textiles ( Hu et al, 2012 ; Leist et al, 2017 ; Veloso-Fernandez et al, 2021 ), electronics ( Dubal et al, 2018 ), aeronautics ( Ahmed et al, 2021 ), and biomedical engineering, aimed for attaining enhanced functionalities ( Lendlein et al, 2010 ; Zhao et al, 2019 ). Given that the shape memory performance of SMPs is closely correlated with their shape-memory creation procedure (SMCP) or shape-programming, an in-depth understanding on the influences of shape-programming parameters, in particular, the programming temperature T prog and deforming (or programming) strain ε deform , on shape memory responses in SMPfs is essential.…”

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Shape-memory responses compared between random and aligned electrospun fibrous mats

Wang

Zhang

Qin

et al. 2023

Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.

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Significant progress has been made in the design of smart fibers toward achieving improved efficacy in tissue regeneration. While electrospun fibers can be engineered with shape memory capability, both the fiber structure and applied shape-programming parameters are the determinants of final performance in applications. Herein, we report a comparison study on the shape memory responses compared between electrospun random and aligned fibers by varying the programming temperature Tprog and the deforming strain εdeform. A PLLA–PHBV (6:4 mass ratio) polymer blend was first electrospun into random and aligned fibrous mat forms; thereafter, the effects of applying specific Tprog (37°C and 46°C) and εdeform (30%, 50%, and 100%) on the morphological change, shape recovery efficiency, and switching temperature Tsw of the two types of fibrous structures were examined under stress-free condition, while the maximum recovery stress σmax was determined under constrained recovery condition. It was identified that the applied Tprog had less impact on fiber morphology, but increasing εdeform gave rise to attenuation in fiber diameters and bettering in fiber orientation, especially for random fibers. The efficiency of shape recovery was found to correlate with both the applied Tprog and εdeform, with the aligned fibers exhibiting relatively higher recovery ability than the random counterpart. Moreover, Tsw was found to be close to Tprog, thereby revealing a temperature memory effect in the PLLA–PHBV fibers, with the aligned fibers showing more proximity, while the σmax generated was εdeform-dependent and 2.1–3.4 folds stronger for the aligned one in comparison with the random counterpart. Overall, the aligned fibers generally demonstrated better shape memory properties, which can be attributed to the macroscopic structural orderliness and increased molecular orientation and crystallinity imparted during the shape-programming process. Finally, the feasibility of using the shape memory effect to enable a mechanoactive fibrous substrate for regulating osteogenic differentiation of stem cells was demonstrated with the use of aligned fibers.

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