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Bunyanuwat, Kittipon, Mora, Phattarin, Luengrojanakul, Panuwat, Sapcharoenkun, Chaweewan, Yuan, Jinying, Karagiannidis, Panagiotis and Rimdusit, Sarawut (2025) Electro-induced two-way shape memory effect from novel interpenetrating polymer networks based on poly(benzoxazine/urethane) reinforced with carbon fiber felt. Journal of King Saud University – Engineering Sciences, 37 (7): 44. p. 44. ISSN 2213-1558

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Novel two-way shape memory polymer composites (2WSMPC) consisting of interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs) of poly(benzoxazine/urethane) reinforced with carbon fiber felt (CFF) were developed in this work. Sequential curing, i.e., moisture curing of urethane followed by thermal curing of benzoxazine (BA-a) was used to synthesize IPNs with molecular phase separation. The thermomechanical properties and two-way shape memory effect (2WSME) of the IPNs were systematically investigated by varying the urethane content. It was found that the glass transition temperature (Tg) and 2WSME of the IPNs based on poly(benzoxazine/urethane) improved by optimizing the urethane content. Moreover, the electro-induced shape memory performance was found to be dependent on the CFF reinforcement. The results showed that the developed IPNs reinforced with CFF triggered by electric current exhibited high two-way shape memory performance, i.e., a fixity at room temperature (RT) of 97–98%, recovery to original shape at high temperature of 97–98%, and those to temporary shape at RT of 92–97%. The findings revealed that the electro-induced two-way shape memory composite from CFF-reinforced poly(benzoxazine/urethane) is a promising candidate for smart electric circuit breaker applications with highly stable reverse recovery between original and temporary shapes up to 20 cycles.

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Additional Information: ** From Springer Nature via Jisc Publications Router ** History: received 17-04-2025; accepted 07-09-2025; registration 08-09-2025; collection 01-11-2025; epub 03-11-2025; online 03-11-2025. ** Licence for this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Urethane, Carbon fiber felt, Two-way shape memory composites, Benzoxazine, Interpenetrating polymer networks
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Depositing User: Panagiotis Karagiannidis
URI: https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/19616

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** From Springer Nature via Jisc Publications Router ** History: received 17-04-2025; accepted 07-09-2025; registration 08-09-2025; collection 01-11-2025; epub 03-11-2025; online 03-11-2025. ** Licence for this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Urethane, Carbon fiber felt, Two-way shape memory composites, Benzoxazine, Interpenetrating polymer networks
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Kittipon Bunyanuwat
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Phattarin Mora
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Panuwat Luengrojanakul
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Chaweewan Sapcharoenkun
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Jinying Yuan
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Sarawut Rimdusit

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