Shape-Shifting Plastic
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 09:40
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Washington State University and the University of Idaho have developed a process to make a thermoset that can be reshaped and reused. The new plastic is a shape-memory polymer, so named because the material can "remember" its original shape and return to it after being deformed with heat or other forces.