The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and smart manufacturing initiatives are accelerating the creation of new technologies, transforming global manufacturing. Like most innovation, competitive ...

The high specific surface area and the excellent mechanical, electrical, optical and thermal properties of graphene make it an attractive component for high-performance stimuli-responsive or ‘smart’ ...

Dr. Darlene Taylor is assistant professor of chemistry at North Carolina Central University. She explains how she and other like-minded scientists are infusing materials with intelligence. Questions ...

Early smart materials were typically amorphous polymers, hydrogels, or liquid crystalline systems with randomly distributed responsive groups, which limited response speed, energy efficiency, and the ...

Professor Hiromi Nakano of Toyohashi University of Technology used a material with a unique periodical structure (smart material: Li-M-Ti-O [M = Nb or Ta]) as a host material to synthesize new ...

“Smart Materials” are materials that change their shape, color, or size in response to an externally applied stimulus. Examples of “external stimuli” include changes in temperature, application of an ...