“…Optically transparent PIs with high thermal resistance have drawn great attention due to their extensive applications as transparent flexible substrates of optoelectronic devices, such as image displays, organic photovoltaics, printing circuit boards, and touch panels [4]. High temperature-resistant transparent PIs with shape memory effect, which involve conversion into a temporary shape and restoration to the original shape under external stimuli, have potential in advanced adaptive optoelectronic and deployable aerospace structural applications [2,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. However, the trade-off between good transparency and thermal stability of PI films remains challenging due to the contradiction between the two properties in many instances [4].…”