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Of all the materials produced commercially, the bulk
of poorly performing materials are depicted as
those, which cannot resist change in the face
of environmental stimuli. Poor performance, leading to
failure, has resulted in great replacement costs in
most every field imaginable from construction materials
to pharmaceutical preparations. Ironically, many materials
are sought and employed because they change
significantly and quickly in response to environmental
stimuli. For instance, shape-recovering biomaterials
describe one application. In this course, the thermo-kinetic
aspects, production, uses & testing of
quick-changing organic materials will be discussed.
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