Professor Wei Min Huang has been doing some great work lately. I’ve been looking over his work in the last while. He has a nice collection of work using ‘Shame Memory Polymers’ (SMP).
I use SMP in some of the ‘Active Disassembly’ (AD) technology I work with.
I highly recommend looking at Prof. Huang’s work here:
http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6038
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