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Defining New Architectural Design Principles with ‘Living’ Inorganic Materials
Author(s) -
Cronin Leroy
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1210
Subject(s) - architectural engineering , scale (ratio) , nanotechnology , engineering , construction engineering , computer science , materials science , physics , quantum mechanics
At the University of Glasgow, Leroy Cronin is leading a group of scientists that are pioneering the engineering of a fundamentally new approach to building materials, which scales up from the nano scale to the micro. Cronin reflects on the possibilities of this new paradigm that gives inorganic cellular materials the potential to be ‘programmed’ to sense environmental changes, generate power, self‐repair, shift properties and even compete with other building materials for resources. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.