Intelligent Materials

M. Shahinpoor, M. Shahinpoor, H-J. Schneider978-0-85404-335-4

Claiming to be intelligent is bold. The materials described in this book are actually somewhat less ambitious; they respond in an interesting way to an external stimulus: a field, a change in pH. a pulse of light, a temperature jump. I would tend to call them “sensitive” rather than “intelligent”. But they have been invented, and improved, by highly intelligent scientists, and this shows in this book.