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No Limit to Number of Times Material Can Change Shape<\/em><\/p>\n

Although most materials slightly expand when heated, there is a new class of rubber-like material that not only self-stretches upon cooling; it reverts back to its original shape when heated, all without physical manipulation.<\/p>\n

The findings were recently published in the journal ACS Macro Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The material is like a shape-memory polymer because it can be switched between two different shapes. \u201cHowever, unlike other shape-memory polymers, the material does not need to be programmed each cycle\u2014it repeatedly switches shapes, with no external forces, simply upon cooling and heating,\u201d said Mitchell Anthamatten, an associate professor of chemical engineering.<\/p>\n

Anthamatten and his team built on the success of a recently developed polymer that can also stretch when cooled. The other polymers need to have small loads\u2014or weights\u2014attached in order to direct the shape to be taken. That is not the case with the Rochester polymer, because Anthamatten\u2019s team \u201ctricked it into thinking\u201d a load was attached.<\/p>\n

To carry out their strategy, the researchers introduced permanent stress inside the material. They began with polymer strands that were loosely connected by bonds called crosslinks that create a network of molecules. The material was stretched with a load attached to give it the desired shape. At that point, they added more crosslinks and cooled the polymer, causing crystallization to occur along a preferred direction.<\/p>\n

Anthamatten\u2019s team showed that internal crystallization forces are strong enough to stretch the material along one direction. Once cooled below about 50\u00a0\u00b0C, polymer chain segments pack into highly ordered micro-layers called lamellae. This reorganization occurs within a network of polymer chains, causing the material\u2019s length to increase by over 15 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stress we built into the network takes the place of the load and enables the material to \u2018remember\u2019 the shape it will assume when it\u2019s later cooled without a load,\u201d said Anthamatten.<\/p>\n

Conventional shape-memory polymers need to be reprogrammed after each cycle, but that\u2019s not the case with the material developed by Anthamatten and his team. After multiple cycles of cooling and heating, they found that the material assumed its programmed shape and returned to its initial state with no noticeable deviation.<\/p>\n

Anthamatten envisions the material being applied to a number of areas in which reversible shape-changes are needed during operations, including biotechnology, artificial muscles, and robotics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next step is to optimize the shape of the polymer material and the energy released during the process,\u201d said Anthamatten. \u201cThat will be done by adjusting the type and density of crosslinks that tie the individual chains together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The research team included two of Anthamatten\u2019s students\u2014Yuan Meng and Jisu Jiang. The work was supported internally by the University of Rochester\u2019s Pump Primer Seed Grant Program, which exists to support proof-of-concept studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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