Cool! There's so much new terminology floating around out there...I wonder how we can make sense of them all.
For example, are "paraelectroactive shape memory ceramics" the same thing as ferroelectric-ferroelastic ceramics, the only distinction being that it has (and can survive) a sizable shape change? So why not call them "ferroelectric shape memory ceramics" (akin to how we refer to "ferromagnetic shape memory alloys")?
In any case, it's neat to see how the mechanics behind SMAs translate into these other material classes! Excited to see more work like this in the future.
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Ashley Bucsek
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-04-2021 14:55
From: Othmane Benafan
Subject: Electrically triggered martensitic transformation, what is that?
Hello SMST Members,
You may have read about shape memory ceramics, but have you heard that the martensite to austenite transformation in some ceramics can be driven directly with an electric field? Check it out in the latest issue of SMST Newswire (https://static.asminternational.org/amp/202103/56/).
Othmane
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Othmane Benafan
Materials Research Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
Cleveland OH
(216) 433-8538
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