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GM "Breakthrough" In Demonstrating Conventional Smart Materials
25 December 2007, 16:22

Categories: smt-polymorphic-shape-shifters


General Motors has been looking at applications for smart materials, such as shape memory alloys, in their automobiles. The SMAs might be used as actuators for simple devices. GM is also using nanotechnology on the running boards of its full-size SUVs to make them lighter and more scratch resistant.
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