Materials And Devices For Smart Systems Iii: Volume 1129 (Mrs Proceedings)

Smart/intelligent systems employ active materials as sensors/actuators to respond to environmental conditions for next-generation machines and structures - applications ranging from everyday life to space exploration missions, from civilian products to military needs, from robots to information/communication technology. It is not surprising, then, that the development of smart materials systems and structures demand higher performance sensors/actuators with new and reliable functions and a fully integrated composite system design. This requires the combination of active and passive materials systems, often including the coupling of relevant mechanical, electrical, magnetic, thermal or other physical/chemical properties. This book bridges the fields of smart materials, sensing and actuating devices, and intelligent/smart systems, and provides an opportunity for researchers from related disciplines to build an interdisciplinary research field and community. Topics include: ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics; nanomaterials and nanofabrication; shape-memory alloys and magnetomaterials; active polymers and soft matters; and other materials, devices and characterization.

• • Author: Ji Su, Li-Peng Wang, Yasubumi Funruya, Susan Trolier-Mckinstry, Jinsong Leng
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Jun 05, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 382 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1107408415
• • ISBN-13: 9781107408418