Smart Materials
Articles of interest
on Smart Materials
SABER Material for Smart Building Skin: https://greenbuildingelements.com/2014/10/08/low-cost-building-skin-cools-using-energy/
Smart Materials & 3D Printing: https://www.sculpteo.com/en/3d-learning-hub/best-articles-about-3d-printing/smart-materials/
Photo-Catalytic Concrete: https://www.citymetric.com/skylines/what-exactly-self-cleaning-concrete-and-how-does-it-work-944
Passive Cooling with Smart Materials: https://www.archdaily.com/877693/iaac-develops-five-passive-cooling-alternatives-using-robotics-and-smart-materials
Building Skins that Breathe: https://gizmodo.com/5-smart-building-skins-that-breathe-farm-energy-and-g-1254091559
Adaptive Building Skins: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-33570-0_19
3D Printing and Wood: http://www.woodresearch.sk/wr/201805/16.pdf
Minimal Surfaces and Humidity (Learning from Spiders): https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=41816.php
Smart Material Actuators: https://worldwidescience.org/topicpages/s/smart+material+actuators.html
Water Harvesting with Biomimicry: https://inhabitat.com/mit-develops-advanced-fog-harvesting-material-that-pulls-5x-more-water-from-thin-air/
Smart Material Patent: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/03/b8/26/6d11a5d06ef08e/WO2017096044A1.pdf
Biomimetic Architecture for Energy Efficient Buildings: https://cpas-egypt.com/pdf/MarianAzmyNessim/Ph.D.pdf
BIOMS at Berkeley: https://ced.berkeley.edu/research/faculty-projects/bioms
Pluripotent Matter & BioInspiration: http://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/lasg_whitepapers_2016_142.pdf
Thermochromic Energy Efficient Coatings: https://heatisland.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/cuhi/docs/211530-karlessi-doc.pdf
Paint Reacts to Light: https://weburbanist.com/2015/11/24/hypercolor-architecture-paints-react-to-light-heat-touch/
Color Changing Roof Tiles: https://phys.org/news/2009-10-color-changing-roof-tiles-absorb-winter.html
DARPA Bricks (Organic Concrete): https://www.slashgear.com/darpa-backed-living-bricks-could-reproduce-self-heal-and-slurp-co2-15606931/
Energy Experiment: https://www.scienceprojects.org/comparing-active-passive-solar-energy-systems-in-cost-and-efficiency/
Zebra Glass (Made from Invasive Species) https://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/articles/ccs-team-wins-international-biodesign-challenge
…on Passive Systems
Passive Design Strategies: http://www.level.org.nz/passive-design/
Bioluminescent Trees: https://www.dezeen.com/2014/03/24/movie-sxsw-daan-roosegarde-glow-in-dark-trees/
Bioluminescent Plants: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/glowinthedarkplants/
…on Active Systems
Harvesting Water with Bamboo Tower: https://gadgetwalla.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/a-bamboo-tower-that-produces-water-from-air/
Harvesting Energy from Door Swing: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311916.2018.1458435
Harvesting Energy from Human Motion: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273312391_Energy_harvesting_from_human_motion_Exploiting_swing_and_shock_excitations
Wearable Kinetic Energy Harnesser: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/10/1483/pdf
Harvesting the Energy of Dance: http://www.sustainablepractice.org/2017/09/19/harvesting-human-energy/
Emerging Alternative Energy Sources: https://www.mythinkenergy.com/alternative-energy-sources