Other Smart Materials Sites

Universities and Government Labs Active in Smart Materials

• Center for Intelligent Mechatronics - Vanderbilt University


• Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures - Virginia Polytechnic Institute


• Active Materials Research Lab - UCLA


• Smart Materials and Structures Research Center - University of Maryland


• Smart Materials and Structures Design Laboratory - University of Michigan


• Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures - North Carolina A&T State University


• Educational Software for Micromachines and Related Technologies (eSMART) - University of Alberta, Canada


• Piezoelectric Motor Research - University of Missouri: Rolla/li>


• Artificial Muscle Research - University of New Mexico


• Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center - University of California Berkeley


• Shape Memory Alloy Research Team - Texas A&M University


• Nondestructive Evaluation and Advanced Actuators Technology - Jet Propulsion Labs

Companies that are Active in Smart Materials

Electro-Ceramics/Ferroelectrics

• EDO Corporation Ceramics Division


• Morgan Matroc


• Piezo Systems, Inc


• Polytec PI


• Ferroperm


• Sensor Technology Limited


• Tokin Piezoelectric ceramics


• APC International


• Aura Ceramics


• Ecertec


• FACE International


• PCB Piezotronics


• Physik Instrumente (PI)


• Smart Material Corporation


• Piezo Kinetics


• Sifam Instruments

Piezoelectric Film

• MSI piezoelectric sensors

Shape Memory Alloys

• Shape Memory Applications


• Dynalloy Inc.


• TiNi Alloy Company


• Raychem


• Intrinsic Devices


• Memory Metalle GmbH

Magnetostrictive Materials

• ETREMA Products Inc.


• Adaptamat - Adaptive Materials Technology


• Gansu Tianxing Rare Earth Functional Materials Co.

Magnetorheological Fluids

• Lord Corporation

Application Providers

• Midé Technology


• Dynamic Structures and Materials


• CSA Engineering,


• Lord Corporation,


• Continuum Photonics


• Nanomotion Ltd.


• Ceranova


• Expert Systems Applications Inc.