Shape Memory Polymers Based on Naturally-Occurring Bile Acids
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Naturally occurring bile acids are ideal building blocks for a new generation of biomaterials displaying low systemic toxicity and engineered properties. Herein we report the synthesis of bile acid-based polyesters using entropy-driven ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ED-ROMP) and characterization of the structure of the resulting polymers. The materials synthesized display high molecular weights ( M n above 100000), typical of ED-ROMPs. The mechanical and responsive behavior of these bile acid-based polyesters (BAPs) is studied by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and thermomechanical cycling. Although BAPs are amorphous thermoplastics, they display typical rubber-like elasticity with tunable mechanical behavior, glass transitions close to body temperature, and outstanding shape memory properties. By introducing small changes in the chemical structure of BAPs (amide bonds or additional hydroxyl groups), we were able to correlate the materials’ stiffness, their T g and shape recovery temperature to their structure. In addition, we show that BAPs can be deformed to high strains even at low temperature and still display shape recovery.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".