Shape and Temperature Memory of Nanocomposites with Broadened Glass Transition

Autor: Maryse Maugey, Pierre Miaudet, Alain Derré, Cécile Zakri, Rabi Inoubli, Patrick M. Piccione, Philippe Poulin
Přispěvatelé: Centre de recherches Paul Pascal (CRPP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de recherche Rhône-Alpes (CRRA), Arkema (Arkema)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Science
Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007, 318, pp. 1294-1296. ⟨10.1126/science.1145593⟩
ISSN: 0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1145593⟩
Popis: 3 pages; International audience; Shape-memory polymers can revert to their original shape when they are reheated. The stress generated by shape recovery is a growing function of the energy absorbed during deformation at a high temperature; thus, high energy to failure is a necessary condition for strong shape-memory materials. We report on the properties of composite nanotube fibers that exhibit this particular feature. We observed that these composites can generate a stress upon shape recovery up to two orders of magnitude greater than that generated by conventional polymers. In addition, the nanoparticles induce a broadening of the glass transition and a temperature memory with a peak of recovery stress at the temperature of their initial deformation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE