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Smart material
About: Smart material is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3704 publications have been published within this topic receiving 74280 citations. The topic is also known as: intelligent material & responsive material.
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21 Apr 2018
TL;DR: A review of advances made in shape-changing materials and their applications within an HCI context is presented and it is believed that the true power of shape- changing devices can be magnified by bringing together these communities.
Abstract: With the proliferation of flexible displays and the advances in smart materials, it is now possible to create interactive devices that are not only flexible but can reconfigure into any shape on demand. Several Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and robotics researchers have started designing, prototyping and evaluating shape-changing devices, realising, however, that this vision still requires many engineering challenges to be addressed. On the material science front, we need breakthroughs in stable and accessible materials to create novel, proof-of-concept devices. On the interactive devices side, we require a deeper appreciation for the material properties and an understanding of how exploiting material properties can provide affordances that unleash the human interactive potential. While these challenges are interesting for the respective research fields, we believe that the true power of shape-changing devices can be magnified by bringing together these communities. In this paper we therefore present a review of advances made in shape-changing materials and discuss their applications within an HCI context.
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TL;DR: In this paper, shape memory materials have been used in many areas and textile application of this technology has covered a wide usage recently, one of these developments in smart materials is shape memory applications, which can remember and recover substantial programmed deformation upon activation and exposing to an external stimulus such as chemicals, temperature, pH, light, a magnetic field, etc.
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TL;DR: Smart materials as controlled drug release vehicles for tissue engineering are described, highlighting their potential for the delivery of precise quantities of drugs at specific locations and times promoting the controlled repair or remodeling of tissues.
Abstract: Smart or stimuli-responsive materials are an emerging class of materials used for tissue engineering and drug delivery A variety of stimuli (including temperature, pH, redox-state, light, and magnet fields) are being investigated for their potential to change a material’s properties, interactions, structure, and/or dimensions The specificity of stimuli response, and ability to respond to endogenous cues inherently present in living systems provide possibilities to develop novel tissue engineering and drug delivery strategies (for example materials composed of stimuli responsive polymers that self-assemble or undergo phase transitions or morphology transformations) Herein, smart materials as controlled drug release vehicles for tissue engineering are described, highlighting their potential for the delivery of precise quantities of drugs at specific locations and times promoting the controlled repair or remodeling of tissues
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TL;DR: The results of a systematic acoustic characterization of agarose, polyacrylamide and polydimethylsiloxane at different concentrations and cross-linking extents and doped with different concentrations of barium titanate nanoparticles correlated for the first time a bioeffect on human fibroblasts, triggered by piezoelectric nanoparticles with a precise US dose delivered.
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TL;DR: In this article, the potential and remaining hurdles for shape memory alloys and their composites to constitute smart materials are investigated, based on recent research, and the authors provide an opinion on the potential of SMAs and composites for smart materials.
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