“…In this way, no further surgery is necessary to remove the implant after fulfilling its temporary purpose, and long-term complications can be avoided. Implant materials based on synthetic, hydrolytically degradable polymers have led to dramatic progress in a variety of medical treatments. − A field, in which shape-memory polymers could be an enabling technology for future applications, is minimally invasive surgery. , On the basis of noncrystallizable switching segments, completely amorphous shape-memory polymer networks having a glass transition temperature as transition temperature ( T trans ) can be designed . Those networks are transparent, and it is expected that they show a more homogeneous degradation than semicrystalline polymers since hydrolytic degradation occurs faster in amorphous regions than in crystalline ones.…”