Smart Materials in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design

✍ Scribed by Axel Ritter

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Groundbreaking innovations

The use of smart materials in architecture is a dynamic and innovative area merging research, development, and use. Smart materials, with their reversible characteristics, respond to stimuli such as light, temperature, and electrical field by changing their form, color, viscosity, etc.

One of the most fascinating developments is the advent of Phase Change Materials. These materials make it possible, for example, to develop self-acting, kinetic facades and wallpaper that changes its color and pattern based on temperature and light.

The book presents the development of these materials and also describes their use in the contexts of architecture, design, and art. It offers a systematic overview with a detailed discussion of properties, technologies, products, and projects based on twenty groups of smart materials.

• Examples of highly innovative materials in actual use
• Provides a systematic overview for users
• Get out ahead with the latest technical knowledge

✦ Table of Contents

preface
trends and developments
innovative materials and products
PROPERTY-CHANGING SMART MATERIALS
SHAPE-CHANGING SMART MATERIALS
thermostrictive smart materials
THERMAL EXPANSION MATERIALS (TEM) / EXPANSION MATERIALS (EM) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
THERMOBIMETALS (TB) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS (SMA) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
electroactive smart materials
ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS (EAP) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
COLOUR- AND OPTICALLY CHANGING SMART MATERIALS
photochromic smart materials
PHOTOCHROMIC MATERIALS (PC) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
thermochromic and thermotropic smart materials
THERMOCHROMIC/-TROPIC MATERIALS (TC, TT) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
electrochromic and electrooptic smart materials
ELECTROCHROMIC/-OPTIC MATERIALS (EC, EO) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
ADHESION-CHANGING SMART MATERIALS 100 photoadhesive smart materials
TITANIUM DIOXIDE (TiO2) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
ENERGY-EXCHANGING SMART MATERIALS
LIGHT-EMITTING SMART MATERIALS
photoluminescent smart materials
FLUORESCENCE > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
PHOSPHORESCENCE > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
electroluminescent smart materials
INJECTION ELECTROLUMINESCENCE | LIGHT-EMTTING DIODES (LED) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
THICK FILM ELECTROLUMINESCENCE | ELECTROLUMINESCENT MATERIALS (EL) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
POLYMER/SMALL MOLECULE ELECTROLUMINESCENCE | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES (OLED) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
ELECTRICITY-GENERATING SMART MATERIALS
photoelectric smart materials
DYE SOLAR CELLS (DSC) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
thermoelectric smart materials
THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS (TEG) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
piezoelectric smart materials
PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS/POLYMERS (PEC, PEP) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
ENERGY-EXCHANGING SMART MATERIALS
heat-storing smart materials
PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS (PCM) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
MATTER-EXCHANGING SMART MATERIALS
MATTER-EXCHANGING SMART MATERIALS
gas/water-storing smart materials
MINERAL AD-/ABSORBENTS (MAd, MAb) >MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
ABSORBENT/SUPERABSORBENT POLYMERS (AP SAP) > MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS
sources, illustration credits