Smart Materials
It
also called as ‘responsive’ or ‘intelligent’ materials, smart materials have
been around being the Pyramids of Giza. Their potential is far-reaching inside
the engineering industry and is only now being tapped into.
A
smart material is an object that holds on to a property that is susceptible to
change with the initiation of a visible stimulus. This change should be either
tangible or visible for the material to qualify for ‘smart’ status. These
changes can contain: