Remote, Local, and Chemical Programming of Healable Multishape Memory Polymer Nanocomposites

Abstract

We show that the combination of remote, local, and chemical programming of the multishape memory effects offers unparalleled shape and function control in carbon nanotube-Nafion composites. This strategy not only allows the high-fidelity encoding and extraction of designed material shapes at different length scales (macro, micro, and nano) but also enables the reversible tunability of material functions, such as shape memorizability, mechanical properties, surface hydrophobicity, and material resealability, in a single nanocomposite.