The term Smart Materials encompasses a class of designed materials whose properties can be significantly changed by controlled external stimuli. The first smart materials were developed during the Progressive Era. The range of smart material properties is extensive.
Smart materials are used extensively in the technology of the Grand Human Union and in many of the Midlands and even some of the Wilds. Programmable matter is a type of smart material that is used extensively in spacecraft construction, clothing, and instrumentation.
Smart material can change its shape, conductivity, optical properties, moduli, density, electrical properties and even it's magnetic and gravitic properties.
The use of smart material allows for operational behavior of devices that would seem almost magical to generations who lived before the Progressive Era.
Some use of smart materials has already been mentioned. For example in airlock construction, vacc suits and cybersuits.
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