Motivated by the persistent desire to develop new materials, which offer currently unavailable functions, research focused on the creation of polymers with tailored stimuli-responsive properties has evolved into an important field at the interface of chemistry, materials science, physics, and other disciplines. This presentation will revolve around materials that either change their mechanical properties on command or respond to stimulation with mechanical force. Examples of polymers that will be discussed include shape memory polymers, which offer delayed shape fixing and are useful for biomedical applications, mechanochromic polymers, which are able to visualize the onset of mechanical damage, as well as polymers that enable (de)bonding on demand.

Mechanically adaptive and adapting polymer systems

2019 Spring National Meeting

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