Compound smart materials are advanced smart materials which can exhibit the properties of more than one kind of smart material in a single material sample. This allows for the creation of more complex devices which can take advantage of the smart characteristics of more than one kind of smart material property. So for example one can have a set of shape-memory sunglasses which exhibit chromogenic properties. Or a photomechanical material that has magnetostrictive properties.
Complex Compound Smart (CCS) materials can be used to make very complex devices, such as extruding space helmets which contain Heads Up Displays (HUDs) or space activity suits which use smart material to provide mechanical counterpressure when external pressure drops, but also provides comfortable temperature regulation in both normal pressure and vacuum environments.
CCS materials are a product of nanotech factories and are made using material fabricators.
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