10 Years Manufacturer STEEL BLOCK for Swiss Factories

Developing Smart Materials
Lesson Objectives
• What is a smart material ?
• How do smart materials improve our lives ?
Memory Metals : Braces for teeth
Modern orthodontics makes frequent use of nickel-titanium archwires and temperature-sensitive materials. When cold, the archwire is limp and flexible, easily threaded between brackets of any configuration. Once heated to body temperature, the archwire will stiffen and seek to retain its shape, creating constant light force on the teeth.
Memory Metals : Spectacle frames
Flexon is one of the most popular types of metal frames because of its durability. This material is a titanium-based metal alloy that is extremely flexible for a metal. Its flexibility allows it to return to its original shape after being bent in different directions . Flexon is also known as ‘smart metal’, ‘smart alloy’ and memory metal.
Memory Metals : Medicine
Medical devices made from SMAs use a different physical approach and can pull together, dilate, constrict, push apart and have made difficult or problematic tasks in surgery quite feasible.
Memory Metals : Robots
A robotic bat which will have a skeleton made of “shape-memory alloy” and flap its wings using electrically powered “metal muscles”. The palm-sized robothopter is intended for use as a military surveillance platform.
Chromic Materials
Materials that change colour
as a response to light
are called photochromic.
Chromic Materials
A mood ring changes colour
according to the body temperature
of the person wearing it.
Chromic Materials
Existing Uses
Color-change labels to indicate when beverages have reached the recommended serving temperature.
Self –Healing Paints
Self-Healing Paints Clot Like Blood :
Microscopic agents help coatings clot like blood on a cut,
this means that scratches on paint can be erased.