Description
The updated Smart Materials Handling Box contains a vast array of smart and unusual and modern materials, perfect for accessing a broad range of materials types in one go.
Included within the box is a new and updated Smart and Modern Materials Handbook, which provides an overview of all of the materials included within the handling box and more. It also provides a number of demonstrations and investigations to get the most out of your sample materials.
The materials come labelled and organised in a Gratnells box, which keep them safe but easily accessible.
Case size: 312 x 427 x 150mm
Box contents:
Thermally Responsive Materials
- Thermochromic Pigment
- Thermochromic Film
- Thermal paper (fax)
Optical Materials
- Glow-in-the-dark film
- Optical fibre
- Photochromic pigment
- UV Beads
- Smart images film
- Polarising film
- Mirror film
- Chameleon Nano Flakes
- Lenticular sheet (bubble)
- Lenticular sheet (animation)
Smart Conductors
- Pressure sensitive conductive rubber
- Piezo transducer
- Faraday film
- Conductive polymer foam
Fibres and Woven Materials
- Kevlar fabric
- Ripstop nylon
- Carbon fibre sheet
- Carbon fibre fabric
- Electrolycra
Smart Alloys and Polymers
- Shape memory polymer
- Smart putty
- Cold forming plastic
- Shape memory wire
- Smart wire
- 2-way memory spring
- Memory spring (smart spring)
- Smart link tubing (silicone)
- Autoheal polymer
- Heatshrink tubing
Special Polymers
- Polymorph
- Hydrogel
- Ecofilm
- Fortune telling fish
- FixIt Stick
- Chromatic Alginate
Tools and Demos
- Lollysticks and tweezers
- Battery box
- Croc leads
- Acrylic base
- UV torch
- PETG ‘L’ shapes
- LED and resistor
- Humidity indicator
- Copper table
- Silica gel
- Ferrofluid
Literature
- New Smart and Modern Materials handbook
