In the currently rapidly developing field of soft robots, smart materials with controllable properties play central role. Thermosensitive elastomers are soft, whose material can be controlled by changing their temperature. The aim this work is to investigate mechanical properties, analyze surface, inner structure, and heat transfer within thermosensitive elastomer materials. This should provide...

Poly ( N -isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) is a famous representative of thermosensitive polymers. Thermosensitive polymers undergo phase transition with lower critical solution temperature. Commonly, their behavior linked to conformational collapse above certain This called Coil-Globule transition. In contrast, most other usually show inverse temperature behavior, i.e., an upper temperature, corr...