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. 2022 Jul 8;14(14):2794. doi: 10.3390/polym14142794

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Illustration of (A) a shape-changing material with the “on-off” mechanism, and of (B) a shape-memory material with the two programming steps in which the structure of the material is deformed from its primary shape following the application of a stimulus and then kept in a temporary metastable shape until a second stimulus is applied allowing the recovery of the original shape.