Recent Developments in Stimuli Responsive Smart Materials and Applications: An Overview
T. Ramakrishnan, S. Senthil Kumar, Samson Jerold Samuel Chelladurai, S. Gnanasekaran, S. Sivananthan, N. K. Geetha, Ramesh Arthanari, Gizachew Balcha Assefa
Abstract
The term “smart materials” can be used to refer a wide variety of different kinds of substances. One capacity that is shared by all of them is the capability to radically alter one or more aspects while operating inside carefully controlled conditions. The age of intelligent materials is arrived, and we are living in it right now. An older definition of smart material described it as a substance that responds swiftly to the environment in which it is located. It has been argued that the word “smart material” now refers to any substance that is capable of detecting, transmitting, or processing a stimulus in order to produce a beneficial effect. This idea has been put forward as a possible expansion of the original meaning of the term. The purpose of this research is to define and categorize different types of intelligent materials. Uses of smart materials are being contemplated in a wide variety of domains, spanning from the realm of technology to that of the modern environment.