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Organic Shape-Memory Polymers and their Foams and Composites in Space

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Shape Memory Composites Based on Polymers and Metals for 4D Printing

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Organic shape-memory foams (OSMFs) are innovative and smart materials. They can respond to an external stimulus (heat-induced, electricity-induced, light exposure, magnetic field, water, and solvent) by changing their shape and recovering an equilibrium one. They have the advantages of lightweight, low cost, high shape deformability, high shape recoverability, tailorable switch temperature, and are easy to manufacture. Shape-memory provides additional functionalities to already known performances of organic forms such as the partial recovery of damages from impacts or volume reduction for long-time storage. For this reason, OSMFs have big potential to be used in the aerospace and biomedical field mainly as light actuators, expandable and self-deployable structures, and environmental-sensitive structures. In this chapter, some works on OSMFs are reviewed, highlighting synthesis and characterization of different materials, challenges, and applications mainly for Space, biomedicine, and 4D printing. Space applications are particularly deepened. Two experiments in Space, one (I-FOAM) performed on the ISS, and the second (RIBES/FOAM2) by using an unmanned flight are described and compared. SMP foams and composites have been recovered in microgravity thanks to an autonomous device where three different samples were placed before the flight. Obtained results show OSMF applicability under microgravity conditions as a premise for future applications in space. Moreover, the possibility to manufacture OSMFs by 4D could open new scenarios for in-space manufacturing and colonization missions.

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    Loredana Santo, Daniele Santoro & Fabrizio Quadrini

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    Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni

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Santo, L., Santoro, D., Quadrini, F. (2022). Organic Shape-Memory Polymers and their Foams and Composites in Space. In: Maurya, M.R., Sadasivuni, K.K., Cabibihan, JJ., Ahmad, S., Kazim, S. (eds) Shape Memory Composites Based on Polymers and Metals for 4D Printing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94114-7_13

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