smart-materials

A childhood toy may hold the secret to future smart robots and mechanical computers. Scientists have developed a new way to program special materials simply by spinning them, inspired by the same snapping motion that makes slap bracelets so satisfying. The research, published in Science Advances, could help create future soft robots, medical devices, and […] The post Scientists discover a way to …

FAU Professor Henry Dube, with funding from the Volkswagen Foundation, is developing smart materials based on tiny molecular machines.

If you’ve ever closed the blinds against afternoon glare and then sat in the dimness wondering why you bothered, you understand the basic problem with windows. They let in light you want and light you don’t, heat that’s welcome in January and unbearable in July, and ultraviolet radiation that slowly destroys your furniture whether you notice or not. For most of us, managing windows means managing…

IMDEA Materials Institute has welcomed Prof. Andrés Díaz Lantada as a new Principal Investigator and leader of the research line on Bioinspired, Smart, and Living Materials.

Imagine a fabric that repairs itself after a small tear, or a wall coating... The post 10 Innovative Smart Materials You May Not Know About appeared first on Linknovate Stories .

Material scientists at Drexel University in Philadelphia have developed a self-heating concrete that warms up on its own when temperatures drop below zero. No power needed. How does this new “smart material” work? Will we see it on our streets soon? Let’s have a look.

For your eyes only Robot arms that follow human movement patterns, artificial skin or movable iris implants: dielectric elastomers are bringing things which were previously strictly confined to the realms of science fiction to within our reach. Dielectric elastomers are smart materials structured in alternating layers. A layer of silicone elastomer is followed by a […]

Juniper publishers- Academic Journal of Polymer Science Authored by Francesca Nanni A Novel Empirical Approach to Estimate the Acoustic Properties of Smart Materials In this work, a novel empirical approach to the estimation of the rheological behaviour of smart materials from the sound insulation capabilities is proposed. The testing protocol relies on a small sound research facility that was…

Smart Materials and Structures Best Paper at the ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) 09 Jan 2016 by ioppThis award is given at the annual ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS). Winners 2014 Zhongjie Li, Lei Zuo, Jian Kuang and George Luhrs of State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA for…

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This award is presented at the Canadian Smart Materials and Structures Group (CANSMART) Conference. Previous winners 2015: D Ginsberg and C P Fritzen for their paper ‘Sparse Solution Strategy for Simultaneous Localization and Magnitude Estimation of Impact Loads’. 2013: Kyle Mulligan, Nicolas Quaegebeur and Patrice Masson for their paper ‘A Novel Signal Compensation Algorithm for Piezoceramic Deg…