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Shape Memory Behavior of Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites

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The remarkable advances in the area of shape memory devices during the past few decades have triggered wide applications in numerous areas ranging from aerospace to household products and from civil engineering to biomedical fields. Shape memory metals, alloys, polymers, and composites are mainly used in fabricating many useful products; more significance is given to the polymers and its composites due to their lightweight, low cost, easy processability, and large strain. The electroactivity and the electrical conductivity of polymer composites are also correlated with this shape memory behavior. The current chapter is specifically prepared to address the various electrically conducting polymers and their composites applied in shape memory devices. A brief introduction to shape memory effect, conducting polymers, and the composite fabrication, followed by discussion about the conducting additives and applicability of conducting composites in shape memory, is provided in this chapter. It will also provide a review of the up-to-date information on this specific topic of conducting composites in shape memory, and the challenges need to be solved for their potential future advancement.

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This publication was made possible by NPRP grant 6-282-2-119 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.

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    Deepalekshmi Ponnamma & Yara Mohamed Hany El-Gawady

  2. Biomaterials in Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Natural Products Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, 21, Tamil Nadu, India

    Mariappan Rajan

  3. Centre for Nano Science and Technology, Institute of Science and Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, Kukatpally, 500085, Hyderabad, India

    Solleti Goutham & Kalagadda Venkateswara Rao

  4. Materials Science and Technology Program, Qatar University, PO Box 2713, Doha, Qatar

    Mariam Al-Ali Al-Maadeed

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Ponnamma, D., El-Gawady, Y.M.H., Rajan, M., Goutham, S., Venkateswara Rao, K., Al-Maadeed, M.AA. (2017). Shape Memory Behavior of Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites. In: Ponnamma, D., Sadasivuni, K., Cabibihan, JJ., Al-Maadeed, MA. (eds) Smart Polymer Nanocomposites. Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50424-7_12

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