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Materials that are utilized in high-technology

Advanced Materials

Examples of Advanced Materials

1. Electronic equipment


2. Computers


3. Fiber-optic systems


4. Spacecraft


5. Aircraft


6. Military Rocketry

3 Types of Advanced Materials

1. Semiconductors


2. Biomaterials


3. Materials in the Future

Have electrical properties that are intermediate between electrical conductors and insulators

Semiconductor

Employed in components implanted into the human body for replacement of diseased or damaged parts

Biomaterials

2 Materials in the Future

1. Smart Materials


2. Nanoengineered Materials

Group of new and state of the art materials now being developed that will have a significant influence on many of our technologies

Smart materials

These materials often have unique optical, electronic, or mechanical properties

Nanoengineered Materials

4 Main Groups of Smart Materials

1. Color changing materials


2. Light emitting materials


3. Moving materials


4. Temperature changing materials

Materials that change color due to different external stimuli.

Color changing materials

Materials that change reversibly color with changes in light intensity

Photochromic materials

Change reversibly color with changes in temperature

Thermocromic materials

2 types of color changing materials

Photochromic materials


Thermocromic materials

Materials that change the light in some sense, due to some external stimuli.

Light Emitting Materials

3 Types of Light Emitting Materials

1. Electroluminescent materials


2. Fluorescent materials


3. Phosphorescent materials

Produce a brilliant light of different colors when stimulated electronically

Electroluminescent materials

Produce visible or invisible light as a result of incident light of a shorter wavelength

Fluorescent materials

Also called afterglow materials


Produce visible or invisible light as a result of incident light of a shorter wavelength, detectable only after the source of the excitement has been removed

Phosphorescent materials

5 types of moving materials

1. Conducting polymers


2. Dielectric elastomers


3. Piezoelectric materials


4. Polymer gels


5. Shape memory materials (SMM)

Materials that in some sense move when exposed to some special external source

Moving materials

Conjugated polymers through which electrons can move from one end of the polymer to the other

Conducting Polymers

-also called electrostrictive polymers


- exhibit a mechanical strain when subjected to an electric field

Dielectric elastomers

Produce an electric field when exposed to a change in dimension caused by an imposed mechanical force (piezoelectric or generator effect)

Piezoelectric materials

Consist of a cross-linked polymer network inflated with a solvent such as water

Polymer gels

Metals that after being strained, at a certain temperature revert back to their original shape

Shape memory alloys (materials)

2 types of temperature changing materials

1. Thermoelectric materials


2. Nanoengineered materials

Materials that change temperature in some way when exposed to some sort of external source

Temperature changing materials

Special types of semiconductors that when coupled, function as a "heat pump"

Thermoelectric materials

Materials that are researched through advanced material science called nanotechnology


These materials are sized form one thousand nanometers down to one nanometers. This materials often have unique optical, electronic, or mechanical properties

Nanoengineered materials

3 Main grouo of Nanometers

1. Natural nanomaterials


2. Fullerenes


3. Nanoparticles

Nanoengineered made through natural process

Natural nanomaterials

Are class of allotropes of carbon which conceptually are graphene sheets rolled into tubes or spheres.

Fullerenes

Nanoengineered materials often made for it's interesting optical and electrical properties

Nanoparticles

8 types of nanoparticles

1. Nanocrystals


2. Quantum Dots


3. Organic Photovoltaic (OPV)


4. Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLEC)


5. Nanomaterial-based catalyst



6. Magic of Nanoengineering7. Nanoengineered Supermaterials


ing7. Nanoengineered Supermaterials


7. Nanoengineered Supermaterials


8. Superconductors

Crystalline particles made at a nano scale

Nanocrystals

Very small conductor particles which most types emit light of specific frequencies if electricity or light is applied to them

Quantum dots

A type of Photovoltaic cells that uses organic material rather than semiconductors in converting light to electricity

Organic Photovoltaic (OPV)

A type of light emitting diode that uses organic material rather than semiconductors in emitting light in response to electric current

Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED)

Catalytic device made at a nano scale to increase catalytic activity due to greater amount of reaction that can take place simultaneously.

Nanomaterial-based catalyst

Alteration of optical properties using nanoengineering

Magic of nanoengineering

Alteration of mechanical properties using nanoengineering

Nanoengineered supermaterials

Alteration of electrical properties using nanoengineering

Superconductors

Nonviable materials used in a medical device, intended to interact with biological system

Biomaterials

Types of biomaterials

1. Short term


2. Permanent

Physical Requirements

1. Hard materials


2. Flexible materials

Chemical requirements

1. Must not react with any tissue in the body


2. Must be non-toxic to the body


3. Long-term replacement must not be biodegradable

Applications of biomaterials

1. Intraocular lenses


2. Vascular f


Grafts


3. Hip replacements


4. Heart valve


5. Artificial Tissue


6. Dental implants

Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)

Also known as:


Acrylic/acrylic glass


Plexiglas


Acrylite


Lucite


Perspex

He had noticed PMMA to be inert in eyes of World War II aviators struck by flying plastic during combat

Harold Ridley

- A surgical procedure performed to redirect blood flows from one area to another by reconnecting blood vessels


- must be flexible


- often recognized by body as foreign


- arteriovenous graft (AVG)

Vascular grafts

- Most common medical practice using biomaterials


- Corrosion resistant high-strength metal alloys


- materials are made of titanium, chromium and cobalt

Hip-replacements

- Fabricated from carbons, metals, elastomers, fabrics, and natural valves


- must NOT react with chemicals in body


- attached by polyester mesh


- tissue growth facilitated by polar oxygen-containing groups

Heart valve

- Biodegradable


- Polymer result of condensation of lactic acid and glycolic acid

Artificial tissue

Small titanium fixture that serves as the replacement for the root portion of a missing natural tooth

Dental implants