Polymer that, after heating and being subjected to a plastic deformation, resumes
its original shape when heated above its glass-transition or
melting temperature.
Note:
Crystalline
trans-polyisoprene is an example of a shape-memory polymer.
Source:
PAC, 2004, 76, 889
(Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric
materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003))
on page 903
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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