MRS Symposium D: Materials and Devices for Smart Systems

Smart/intelligent material systems utilize active materials as sensors/actuators to sense and respond to their environmental condition changes for more advanced next-generation machines and structures. Therefore, the development of smart material systems and structures need more high performance, new functional sensors/actuators technology, and a fully integrated composite system design. This requires the combination of active and passive material systems, often including the coupling of relevant mechanical, electrical, magnetic, thermal or other physical/chemical properties. Based on one decade of progress of smart/intelligent materials and systems and the experiences of the so far three MRS symposium sessions for this emerging R&D area, the discussions and information exchanges will now focus on areas such as:

· R&D information about the development of higher performance and new active materials and their fabrication processes
· Further characterization of new and existing active materials
· Developing models of material behavior and material failure prediction

Besides, more smart material system will progress into small packaging devices with integrated sensor/actuator by nanoMEMS technology. This topic will be discussed in a joint session anticipated with Symposium A: Micro- and Nanosystems.

The symposium will focus on topics related to characterization, processing, manufacturing, analysis, design, and applications of smart materials, smart composites, smart devices, and smart structural systems.

Papers are solicited in the following categories:

· Development of active/smart materials
- single crystal and polycrystalline sensor/actuator materials: piezo-ferroelectrics, SMAs, FMSMAs, magnetostrictives, etc.
- electroactive polymer gels, chemomechanical polymeric actuator/sensors
- electro-, magnetorheological fluids
- novel material processes to produce multifunctional and active/smart materials including nanomesostructure design
· Smart/active composites
- piezo-ferroelectric composites(including unimorph, bimorph, and patch), SMA composite, and magnetostrictive composite
- hybrid active material systems, smart polymer composites, hybrid active material systems, stack actuators, and their performances
- design and modeling of physical/mechanical behavior
- fabrication processes for these smart/active composites
· New devices and systems utilizing smart materials both in engineering and medical fields
- devices and their performances for engineering applications, especially medical and telecommunication, health-monitoring, etc.
- smart material devices by nanoMEMS technology
- smart adaptive materials and systems for structure control

A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned. Further information will be included in the program that will be available in September.

Invited speakers include: K. Bhattacharya (California Inst. of Technology), Fu-Kuo Chang (Stanford Univ.), E. Cross (Pennsylvania State Univ.), G. Eggeler (Ruhruniv. Bochum, Germany), P. Gobin (INSA, Lyon, France), K.J. Kim (Univ. of Nevada), T. Kishi (NIMS, Japan), R.D. Kornbluh (SRI International), G.C. Lee (RIST, Korea), M. Loehndorf (Caesar, Germany), H. Masumoto (Tohoku Univ., Japan), R. O'Handley (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), N. Setter (EPFL, Switzerland), J. Su (NASA Langley Research Ctr.), I. Takeuchi (Univ. of Maryland), M. Taya (Univ. of Washington), V.K. Varadan (Pennsylvania State Univ.), and M. Wuttig (Univ. of Maryland).

Symposium Organizers

Yasubumi Furuya
Hirosaki University, Dept. of Intelligent Machines and System Engineering, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki Aomori 036-8561, Japan
Tel 81-172-39-3677, Fax 81-172-39-3513, furuya@cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp

Eckhard Quandt
Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR), Smart Materials Group, P.O. Box 7025, D-53070 Bonn, Germany
Tel 49-228-9656-215, Fax 49-228-9656-111, quandt@caesar.de

Qiming Zhang
The Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 187 Materials Research Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802-4801
Tel 814-863-8994, Fax 814-863-7846, qxz1@psu.edu

Kanryu Inoue
University of Washington, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, P.O. Box 352120, Seattle, WA 98195-2120
Tel 206-685-7870, Fax 206-685-7870, inoue@u.washington.edu

Mohsen Shahinpoor
University of New Mexico, Artificial Muscle Research Institute (AMRI), Albuquerque, NM 87108
Tel 505-277-3966, Fax 505-277-1571, shah@unm.edu

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