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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Macromol Chem Phys. 2014 Sep 10;215(24):2482–2490. doi: 10.1002/macp.201400340

Table 1.

Shape memory properties of HA-PELA films with varying HA contents determined from strain-controlled cyclic thermal mechanical testing.

HA content (wt%) Shape fixing ratio (Rf) Recovery ratio at 50 °C (Rr) (no hold) Recovery ratio (Rr) after 10 min hold at 50 °C
0 99.3% 85.3% 95.6%
5 99.4% 74.2% 94.2%
10 99.4% 75.8% 94.0%
20 99.4% 72.4% 90.6%