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Smart Materials
Smart colours
- Pigments which can be incorporated into paints, dyes, inks and plastics
- Thermochromic pigments
- React to changes in temperature
- Photochromic pigments
- React to changes in light levels
- Used in sunglasses
- Exposure to sunlight causes the lens of the glasses to darken to protect the eye
Polymorph
- Available in small pellets which fuse together when heated to 62˚C
- Moulded into shape resulting in a very tough polymer
- Unused pellets can be re-heated and re-used
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- Mind Map on Untitled, created by sulllewi09 on 01/05/2014.
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