| Reference : Embedding intelligence in materials for responsive built environment: A topical revie... |
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| Physics and Materials Science | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/53486 | |||
| Embedding intelligence in materials for responsive built environment: A topical review on Liquid Crystal Elastomer actuators and sensors | |
| English | |
Schwartz, Mathew  [New Jersey Institute of Technology] | |
| Lagerwall, Jan [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPHYMS) >] | |
| 18-Oct-2022 | |
| Building and Environment | |
| Elsevier | |
| 226 | |
| 109714 | |
| Yes | |
| International | |
| 0360-1323 | |
| 1873-684X | |
| Oxford | |
| United Kingdom | |
| [en] liquid crystal elastomers ; structural health monitoring ; strain sensing ; soft actuation ; kinetic buildings ; situational awareness ; embedded control ; cholesteric liquid crystals ; actuators ; responsive materials ; shape memory polymers | |
| [en] Liquid Crystal Elastomers (LCEs) are an exciting category of material that has tremendous application potential across a variety of fields, owing to their unique properties that enable both sensing and actuation. To some, LCEs are simply another type of Shape Memory Polymer, while to others they are an interesting on-going scientific experiment. In this visionary article, we bring an interdisciplinary discussion around creative and impactful ways that LCEs can be applied in the Built Environment to support kinematic and kinetic buildings and situational awareness. We focus particularly on the autonomy made possible by using LCEs, potentially removing needs for motors, wiring and tubing, and even enabling fully independent operation in response to natural environment variations, requiring no power sources. To illustrate the potential, we propose a number of concrete application scenarios where LCEs could offer innovative solutions to problems of great societal importance, such as autonomous active ventilation, heliotropic solar panel systems which can also remove snow or sand autonomously, and invisible coatings with strain mapping functionality, alerting residents in case of dangerous (static or dynamic) loads on roofs or windows, as well as assisting building safety inspection teams after earthquakes. | |
| European Commission - EC | |
| Researchers ; Professionals | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/53486 | |
| 10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109714 | |
| H2020 ; 648763 - INTERACT - Intelligent Non-woven Textiles and Elastomeric Responsive materials by Advancing liquid Crystal Technology |
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