“Smart skin”

[Ivan Seeking]

...the company’s small office has been flooded with calls from Fortune 500 companies and government agencies eager to test Metal Rubber’s use in everything from artificial muscles to smart clothes to shape-shifting airplane wings. [continued]

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,676853,00.html

[alpha_wolf]

Most interesting. I suspect it should deteriorate over time due to diffusion. But that depends on the polymer used, and would probably take a long time...

Btw, I think this fits better in the Material/Chemical Engineering forum.

[Ivan Seeking]

Btw, I think this fits better in the Material/Chemical Engineering forum.

I was thinking that engineers of all kinds will be using this stuff almost immediately.