Materials for Smart Systems III：VOLUME604

Proceedings of a winter 1999 symposium on smart materials, covering conventional piezoelectric, magnetostrictive, and shape memory materials, as well as electro/magnetorheological fluids and mechanochemical actuators. Specific subjects include aluminum nitride thin films for microwave filter and microsystem applications, intelligent gels, stress-induced martensite in NiTi corrugated films, and energy absorption and damping in magnetostrictive composites. Other topics are magnetically driven shape memory alloys, molecular recognition of organic compounds by imprinted silica, and de-icing layers of interdigitated microelectrodes. Wun-Fogle is affiliated with the Naval Surface Warfare Center. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)