Intelligent materials systems

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The discovery of inherently conducting polymers also provided a class of materials that would feed the imagination of Scientists and Engineers in pursuit of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures. No other class of materials possess the inherent properties necessary to function as sensors, information processors and actuators, as well as the possibility of providing an energy conversion system. 

There is no doubt that as we develop an understanding of how best to assemble and integrate inherently conducting polymers with other structures, while retaining their functionality, then real intelligent material systems will emerge in the new millennium. 

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However, again, there is the underlying fundamental requirement that the creation of intelligent material systems must involve the identification of molecular systems whose chemical and electrical properties can be manipulated and controlled. 

The diversity of approaches used to develop intelligent material systems and structures is a healthy symptom of the stage of development of this scientific endeavor. 

Of course, not all molecular systems are suitable. It appears likely that only a handful of systems will be produced to solve our intelligent material systems needs. It is not so much that sophisticated molecules are required to produce materials capable of sophisticated behavioral patterns simple molecules, assembled creatively, achieve this objective in nature, and this is something those of us involved in synthetic materials aspire to. 

The following factors are important as far as the design of intelligent material systems is concerned ... 

Dr. Wallace received the inaugural Polymer Science and Technology Award from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1992. He was awarded an ETS Walton Fellowship by Science Foundation Ireland in 2003, and received the RACI Stokes Medal for research in electrochemistry in 2004. Professor Wallace has published more than 400 refereed publications and a monograph (two editions) on inherently conducting polymers for intelligent material systems. He has supervised 50 Ph.D. students to completion. 

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Wallace, G.G., G.M. Spinks, LA.P. Kane-Maguire, and P.R. Teasdale. 2003. Conductive electroactive polymers Intelligent material systems, 2nd ed. Boca Ratom CRC Press. 

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