Fundamentals of Smart Materials

Smart materials are of significant interest and this is the first textbook to provide a comprehensive graduate level view of topics that relate to this field. Fundamentals of Smart Materials consists of a workbook and solutions manual covering the basics of different functional material systems aime...

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Other Authors Shahinpoor, Mohsen (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020.
Edition1st edition.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781788019460
1788019466
9781782626459
9781839168819
1839168811
178262645X
Physical Description1 online resource illustrations (black and white, and colour)

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Table of Contents:
  • General Introduction to Smart Materials; Review of Piezoelectric Materials; Review of Piezoresistive Materials as Smart Sensors; Review of Electrostrictive Materials; Review of the use of Fibrous Contractile Ionic Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) in Smart Materials and Artificial Muscles; Review of Magnetostrictive (MSMs) and Giant Magnetostrictive Materials (GMSs); Review of Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) Materials; Review of Magnetic Gels as Smart Materials; Review of Electrorheological Fluids (ERFs) as Smart Material; Review of Magnetorheological Fluids as Smart Materials; Review of Dielectric Elastomers (DEs) as Smart Materials; Review of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) as Smart Materials; Review of Magnetic Shape Memory Smart Materials; Shape Memory Polymers (SMPs) as Smart Materials; Review of Smart Materials for Controlled Drug Release; Review of Smart Mechanochromic and Metamaterials; Review of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites (IPMCs) as Smart Materials; Review of Smart Ionic Liquids; Review of Conductive Polymers as Smart Materials; Review of Liquid Crystal Elastomers; Hydrogels, Including Chemoresponsive Gels, as Smart Materials; Smart Nanogels for Biomedical Applications; Review on Self-healing Materials; Overview of Janus Particles as Smart Materials