The Technology Strategy Board has indicated in its recently published Delivery Plans for 2014-15, the intention to launch a funding competition for smart materials.

The Knowledge Transfer Network, in support of the Technology Strategy Board, has organised this workshop to provide the opportunity for developers and users of Smart Materials to contribute to the scope of the forthcoming call.

A smart material is one that responds to a stimulus in its environment, usually reversibly, as a part of a system, but includes intrinsically smart and engineered smart materials. Hybrid materials are those that are alloys or composites on the micro scale whilst multiple materials are microfabricated systems such as multilayer and multifunctional films.

The workshop aims to address the question of how the UK manufacturing can benefit from the use of smart materials and what the key competency issues that need addressing are.

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