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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