Curing characteristics of shape memory polymers in 3D projection and laser stereolithography

The radical shift in 3D printing to fabricate soft active materials such as shape memory polymers (SMPs) has brought along other techniques in realising 4D printing. Stereolithography (SL) process has recently been one of the popular systems for printing SMPs. In this paper, the curing characteristics and behaviour of the SMPs fabricated via projection-type and laser-scanning-type SL process were analysed. Factors such as the UV exposure of the...