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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 26.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Funct Mater. 2014 May 12;24(30):4860–4866. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201304037

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic of the general strategy used to accelerate stiffness transitions in thermoplastic structures. Utilizing a vascularized material design in bulk thermoplastics decreases the characteristic length-scale of the material. This reduction leads to accelerated heat transfer and stiffness transitions when compared to monolithic thermoplastics.