The Shape-Memory Polymer Actuator Sheet (IMAGE)

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The Shape-Memory Polymer Actuator Sheet

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The shape-memory polymer actuator sheet coated with stem cells shrunken when cold (left) and stretched when heated (right).

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Source: Polymeric sheet actuators with programmable bioinstructivity, Zijun Deng, Weiwei Wang, Xun Xu, Oliver Gould, Karl Kratz, Nan Ma, and Andreas Lendlein, <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em>, 2020, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1910668117

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