Smart materials in architecture, interior architecture and design

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ritter Axel.
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: Birkhäuser,
Publisher Address: Basel Boston
Publication Dates: c2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Online Access: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-7643-8227-8
Carrier Form: 190 p.: col. ill. ; 25 x 27 cm.
ISBN: 9783764382278 (electronic bk.)
3764382279 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: TB381
CLC: TB381
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-189).
Trends and developments -- Innovative materials and products -- Smart materials -- Property-changing smart materials : Shape-changing smart materials : Thermostrictive : Thermal expansion materials (TEM): Expansion materials ; Thermobimetals (TB) ; Shape memory alloys (SMA) ; Electroactive polymers (EAP) ; Colour and optically changing smart materials : Photochromic materials (PC) ; Thermochromic and Thermotropic material (TC, TT) ; Electrochromic and electrooptic materials (EC, EO) ; Adhesion-changing smart materials : Photoadhesive smart materials : Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) -- Energy-exchanging smart materials : Light-emitting smart materials : Photoluminescent smart materials : Fluorescence ; Phosphorescence ; Electroluminescence smart materials : Injection electroluminescence / Light-emtting diodes (LED) ; Thick film electroluminescence/electroluminescent materials (EL) ; Polymer/small molecule electroluminescence/organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) -- Electricity-generating smart materials : Photoelectric smart materials : Dye solar cells (DSC) ; Thermoelectric generators (TEG) ; Piezoelectric ceramics/polymers (PEC, PEP) ; Energy-exchanging smart materials : Heat-storing smart materials : Phase change materials (PCM) -- Matter-exchanging smart materials : Gas/water-storing smart materials : Mineral ad-/absorbents (MAd, MAb) ; Absorbent/Superabsorbent polymers (AP, SAP).