Get Smart: Smart Materials as a Design Paradigm

The phrase “smart materials” emerged over thirty years ago to refer to class of materials capable of changing their properties automatically in response to an external stimulus. Despite the growing interest, Lux found that the term “smart materials” is too broad to be useful in solving commercially ...

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