The Influence of Water and Solvent Uptake on Functional Properties of Shape-Memory Polymers

Table 5

Shape-memory properties of dry and physically (hydrolytically) aged Estane programmed at . The results for the first cycle can be found in Supplement I.

Maximum strain (−)	(2) (%)	(2) (%)
	Dry samples
10%	85.07 ± 3.44	81.02 ± 6.21
30%	91.46 ± 5.75	71.11 ± 6.94
60%	94.47 ± 5.39	69.98 ± 7.34
100%	95.60 ± 6.18	67.18 ± 8.56
150%	95.84 ± 4.28	56.14 ± 6.33
	Physically aged samples
10%	93.41 ± 4.25	99.03 ± 3.67
30%	91.99 ± 5.79	95.24 ± 5.23
60%	93.90 ± 5.43	88.20 ± 4.97
100%	94.65 ± 7.63	87.52 ± 6.12
150%	95.60 ± 6.18	84.33 ± 6.18