Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- Section I: Shape Memory Materials -- 2. Overview Shape Memory Materials -- [Wei Min Huang] -- 3. Shape Memory Polymers -- [Wei Min Huang] -- Section II: Overview of CHEM Technology -- 4. Background -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 5. Polyurethane-Based Shape Memory Polymers Development -- [Shunuchi Hayashi and Witold Sokolowski] -- 6. Improving the Performance of Shape Memory Polymers -- [Carl de Smet and Jan Ivens] -- 7. Description of CHEM Structures -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 8. CHEM Technology Development -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 9. Properties of Baseline CHEM Foam Material -- [Alan Watt and Witold Sokolowski] -- 10. Characteristics of CHEM Structures -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 11. Thermomechanical Behavior of CHEM Foams -- [Alan Watt, Wei Min Huang, and Witold Sokolowski] -- 12. Effect of Cold Storage -- [Wei Min Huang and Witold Sokolowski] -- 13. Shape Recovery Control of CHEM Structure -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 14. Modeling and Simulation of CHEM Foam Behavior -- [Alan Watt] -- 15. Advantages of CHEM Structures -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- Section III: CHEM Structure Space Applications -- 16. Introduction -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 17. Investigation of CHEM Space Applications -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 18. Heat Energy for Deployment in Space -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 19. Improvements for Large CHEM Structures -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 20. Future CHEM Thin-Film Spacecraft -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 21. Foaming In-Space Structures -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 22. Comparison with Other Space Deployable Structures -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- Section IV: Shape Memory Polymer Composites (SMPC) -- 23. Introduction -- [Jinsong Leng] -- 24. Applications of SMPC in Deployable Space Structures -- [Liwu Liu, Haiyang Du, Wei Zhao, Yanju Liu, and Jinsong Leng] -- 25. Shape-Memory Activation Methods -- [Wenxin Wang, Haibao Lu, Jinsong Leng, and Yanju Liu] -- Section V: CHEM Space Projects -- 26. Introduction -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 27. International Space Station Shape Memory Polyurethane (SMPU) Experiment -- [Shaun Whitehead and Carl de Smet] -- 28. SMPU Vane for Femto Satellites -- [Carl de Smet and Witold Sokolowski] -- Section VI: CHEM Commercial Applications -- 29. Introduction -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 30. Potential CHEM Applications -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 31. How to Use the CHEM -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 32. Heat Sources for Deployment of CHEM Products -- [Witold Sokolowski, Jeng-Neng Fan, and Carl de Smet] -- 33. Modifiable Furniture -- [Carl de Smet] -- 34. Transformable Furniture -- [Jeng-Neng Fan and Witold Sokolowski] -- 35. Automotive Applications -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 36. Self-Reconfiguration Furniture -- [Carl de Smet] -- Section VII: Applications in Biomedicine -- 37. Introduction -- [Witold Sokolowski] -- 38. Biomedical Applications of Polyurethane Shape Memory Polymers -- [Witold Sokolowski and Jinsong Leng] -- 39. CHEM Biomedical Applications -- [Witold Sokolowski, Naziha Chirani, and LHocine Yahia] -- 40. CHEM for Endovascular Interventions -- [Witold Sokolowski, Naziha Chirani, and LHocine Yahia] -- 41. The Future Unfolding: The Spectrum of Smartness in the Fabric of Everyday Objects -- [Carl de Smet] -- 42. Precis -- [Witold Sokolowski].

Cold hibernated elastic memory (CHEM) is an innovative, smart material technology that uses shape memory polymers in open cellular structures. This book extensively describes CHEM self-deployable structures, provides basic property data and characteristics, discusses advantages, and identifies numerous space, commercial, and medical applications. Some of these applications have been experimentally and analytically investigated with inspiring results and are revealed here. CHEM technology has a potential to provide groundbreaking self-deployable space structures. Some cutting-edge space CHEM concepts described in this book represent the introduction of a new generation of space deployable structures. CHEM materials have unique characteristics that enable the manufacture of self-deployable stents and other medical devices not possible currently. One of the medical applications, the CHEM endovascular treatment of aneurysm, is being experimentally explored with promising results that would save lives. This book provides a long list of interesting potential commercial CHEM applications that could simplify and make life easier at low cost. One of these products, the self-reconfiguring armchair, is already being set up for mass production. This book will be of interest to all engineering researchers, scientists, engineers, students, designers, and technologists across their relevant fields of interest. The exceptional characteristics of CHEM technology are presently enabling technologists to develop many applications ranging from outer space to inside the human body. As a result, CHEM structures are in the process of reshaping our thinking, approaches, and design methods in many ways that conventional materials and approaches do not allow.

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