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Smart materials: teacher notes
These teacher notes will guide you through the collection of resources created for space-inspired smart materials. Including:
- An introduction to smart materials
- Phase change materials
- Photochromic materials
- Piezoelectric materials and Quantum Tunnelling Composites
- Smart metal alloys (SMA) and smart metal polymers (SMP)
- Thermochromic materials
This teacher guide has been designed to accompany each topic, providing notes on individual slides, example answers to typical student questions and health and safety guidance for experiments.
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