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Smart Materials Powerpoint
Smart Materials Powerpoint
arch 5313 _ Digital Assemblages Instructor _ David Newton Petro N. Megits _ gdII Fall 2007
Smart materials _ materials that have one or more properties that can be significantly altered in a controlled fashion by external stimuli, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH, electric or magnetic fields. - Wikipedia
Transmaterial
Blaine Brownell leader in exposing people to smart and ecologically responsive materials.
Sensitile Spherical Photovoltaic systems reuse of materials
http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/?lang=&viewcastid=34
Smart dust - The goal of the Smart Dust project is to build a self-contained, millimeter-scale
sensing and communication platform for a massively distributed sensor network. This device will be around the size of a grain of sand and will contain sensors, computational ability, bi-directional wireless communications, and a power supply, while being inexpensive enough to deploy by the hundreds. Anti-smart dust _ http://youtube.com/watch?v=fyM8zgYt30w
Self repairing plastics - microcapsules, which were used by Scott White of the University of
Illinois to create a self-repairing plastic. His group inserted tiny beads of "healing agent" into a material. The agent is activated by impact, like a glow stick, to patch up any fractures.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oakDTbZHdks
Halochromic - materials are commonly materials that change their color as a result of changing
acidity. One suggested application is for paints that can change color to indicate corrosion in the metal underneath them.