SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY in the twenty-first century will rely heavily on thedevelopment of new materials. Based on a concept that differs greatly from that of the so-called structural and functional materials, intelligent materials will play an important part in materials sciences and development. Intelligent materials may be defined as materials which respond to en-
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Toshinori Takagi (1990) studied this question.