Engineers create rubbery 'smart' material to treat open wounds, infections and cancer
Researchers have developed a material -- a new kind of shape memory polymer (SMP) -- that could have major implications for health care.SMPs are soft, rubbery, "smart" materials that can change shape in response to external stimuli like temperature changes or exposure to light. They can hold each shape indefinitely and turn back when triggered to do so. SMPs have many potential biomedical applications. For example, they are ideal as cardiovascular stents because they can be one shape for surgical insertion and another once positioned in a blood vessel. The warmth of the patient's body is all that is required to trigger the shape change.
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