Future of Engineering
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Photo-switchable Nanofibers - Smart at the Flip of a Light Switch
Materials are made 'smart' when they are engineered to have properties that change in a controlled manner under the influence of external stimuli such as mechanical stress, temperature, humidity, electric charge, magnetic fields etc. Emerging nanotechnologies are now about to give scientists the tools to take smart materials to the next performance level. Another small building block towards smart materials was recently reported by Italian researchers who demonstrated photo-switchable nanofibers based on the reversible transformation between two molecular photochemical states, exhibiting different chemico-physical characteristics.
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Labels: Material-Sciences, Textile-Engineering
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