SMART Materials respond to environmental stimuli, with changes in variables such as light, sounds, touch, temperature, electric and are also called responsive materials.
Products increasingly use them with imaginative designers seeing increasing potential to create ever more creative solutions to their design problems.
Smart Materials Research is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles related to all aspects of smart materials – click on the table of contents to see what articles they have.
Some of them are very scientific but you might find them useful and give you some more ideas as to what’s possible and what research is happening in SMART materials