New micro-machines, new materials

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• Professor Mark Warner FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics
• Monday 12 March 2018, 18:00-19:00
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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Radically novel materials change shape by 100s% following temperature or illumination changes. Such sophisticated response suggests different ideas for deploying such materials from in conventional mechanics and devices. We describe the materials and new mechanics paradigms to exploit their novelty: Local material shape changes can be arranged so that intrinsic curvature is induced into flat spaces. I will employ many demonstrations, and re-examine the map-maker’s problem of resolving planes with curved space.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Philosophical Society series.

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