SciVid 2019 L (HONORABLE MENTION): Tiny Medical Devices with Shape Memory Polymers
Channel: Materials Research Society
Date: 2019-11-26

2019 Science in Video Competition - "LIKE" This video to nominate it for the People's Choice Award. Awards will be presented Dec. 4 at the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. 

Video Produced by: Luizetta Navrazhnykh Elliott, Erika Salzman, Julia R. Greer, Rasa Pictures; California Institute of Technology , USA
 
Description: Tiny devices that enter the human body and do things like open clogged arteries are a classic sci-fi fantasy. Small scale 3D structures that can change shape in response to heat through the shape memory effect bring it one step closer to reality.

2019 SciVid Competition sponsored by Goodfellow, Millipore Sigma, the Materials Research Society Foundation and A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute