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New Programmable Smart Fabric Responds to Temperature and Electricity

Unique smart fabric is the first to change both color and shape in response to two different stimuli.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

A new smart material developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo is activated by both heat and electricity, making it the first ever to respond to two different stimuli. The unique design paves the way for a wide variety of potential applications, including clothing that warms up while you walk from the car to the office in winter and vehicle bumpers that return to their original shape after a collision. Inexpensively made with polymer nano-composite fibers from recycled plastic...

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