The Past, Present, and Future of DARPA's Investment Strategy in Smart Materials

From: JOM | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) smart mate rials research programs past, present, and future are reviewed in this article. Several articles have been written about the history of smart materials at DARPA;1-4 therefore, discussions of past efforts are limited and present and future work is emphasized. More importantly, this article presents the authors' vision of what is next in the smart materials arena, for it is their belief that the journey to truly smart materials and structures has really just begun.

INTRODUCTION

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