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Areas of research being pursued in the lab fall in the category of : Novel Functional Ferroic Materials
In recent years, there has been a surge of research interest in smart multifunctional / active materials. ‘Smart Materials’, very useful in technology applications are those that change the coefficient of one of their properties (shape/ electrical signal/ magnetic signal/ optical signal) in response to an external stimulus (temperature/ stress/ applied fields etc.) and this change in (shape/ electrical signal/ magnetic signal/ optical signal) can be used to control the stimulus itself.
In technology, such materials can be used for sensing and actuation simultaneously. Historically, piezoelectric/ magnetostrictive/ shape-memory alloys like Nitinol have been used for such purpose. For these, electric field/ magnetic field/ temperature (respectively) were the driving external stimulus; with unique functionality for each sensor or actuator. The recent interests of researchers are to develop materials with multiple functionality
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