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SUBMITTER: Zhang Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4355736 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Quan Q Yan Dong D Zhang Kai K Hu Gengkai G
Scientific reports 20150311
A significant challenge in conventional heat-shrinkable polymers is to produce controllable microstructures. Here we report that the polymer material fabricated by three-dimensional (3D) printing technique has a heat-shrinkable property, whose initial microstructure can undergo a spontaneous pattern transformation under heating. The underlying mechanism is revealed by evaluating internal strain of the printed polymer from its fabricating process. It is shown that a uniform internal strain is sto ...[more]