Advances in Physiologically Relevant Actuation of Shape Memory Polymers for Biomedical Applications

The synergistic effects of the combination of hyperthermia and chemotherapy have implicated the critical role of hyperthermia temperatures in clinical practice. Temperature sensitive polymers, which are capable of exhibiting controllable shapes under various temperature actuations, have attracted considerable interests for designing intelligent medical devices. While shape memory performances have been demonstrated with a wide range of...