Biodegradable, amorphous copolyester-urethane networks having shape-memory properties
Biodegradable, amorphous copolyester-urethane networks having shape-memory properties
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200461360
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发表时间:
2005-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Lendlein, A
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Alteheld, A;Feng, YK;Lendlein, A
1189 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 1188–1192 www. angewandte. org 2005 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim possible dangling chain ends or loop formation may also influence Tg. For biomedical applications the Tg value of the networks could potentially be adjusted around body temperature by increasing the glycolide content. At 708C, approximately 208C above Tg, the polymer networks are in a rubber-elastic state, and no necking occurred in the stress–strain test. Young s modulus E and elongation at break εb depend on the segment length of the covalent network: with increasing molecular weight of the precursors, in other words, increasing chain lengths of the networks, E decreases and εb increases, respectively. The results of mechanical tests at 708C showed that it was possible to realize deformations from the permanent to the temporary shape of up to 470%. The value for E decreased by a factor between 60 and 530 compared to that of identical sample measured at 258C (Table 1). The value for εb decreased from 470% at 708C to 250% at 258C for the loosely cross-linked material NP-LG (17)-10000. The tensile stress at break σb increased by at least an order of magnitude when the measurement temperature was decreased from 70 to 258C. The shape-memory effect of amorphous biodegradable copolyester-urethane networks is illustrated in Scheme 2. In the programming step, the amorphous polyurethane network was deformed from its permanent shape to its temporary shape at a high temperature (Thigh= 708C), held in its deformed shape, and cooled below Ttrans to Tlow. After fixation of the deformed temporary shape was complete, the load was removed. In the recovery step the network was reheated above Ttrans to Thigh, and the original permanent shape was recovered. The macroscopic shape-memory effect of these materials is demonstrated in Figure 2. The complex transformation from the temporary shape (“SM”) to the perma-