Spun out of the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER) program from Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Syzygy Memory Plastics Corporation uses a proprietary shape memory polymer processing and manufacturing technologies to create innovative mass-market products. The firm's technology facilitates the utilization of standard industrial molding equipment for the cost-effective processing of mass-market products incorporating shape memory technology.designs and manufactures advanced shape memory technologies and flexible electronics for ergonomic devices, flexible sensing systems, and neural biotechnologies. The firm is focused on industries where cost barriers and production obstacles have limited the utilization of smart plastics on both simple (monolithic) and complex (electronic, biomedical) devices, these technologies enable many applications that take advantage of body temperature to control shape and stiffness. Flexible electronics enable applications where stiff, rigid silicon substrates would cause harm. Shape memory polymers are a class of self-adjusting smart materials that are stiff like plexiglass below a critical temperature and soft like rubber above it. Through manipulating polymer chemistry, this temperature can be adjusted very precisely, to within a single degree, between sub-freezer temperatures and above boiling water temperatures. After the material is shaped, it can be reheated and returns back to its original shape.
