Functional materials are materials with specific functions. Earlier this month, Alfa Chemistry Materials announces to provide wide varieties of functional materials for customers worldwide, which could be used in multiples areas and industries like aerospace, biological medicine, environmental ecology and so on.
Functional materials are also interpreted as high-tech materials with excellent performances in electrical, magnetic, optical, thermal, acoustic, mechanical, chemical and biological fields. When compared with common structural materials, they generally have other functional properties besides mechanical properties.
Applications of Functional Materials
Functional materials plays a vital role in not only traditional industries, but also in some newly emerging industries like information technology, biotechnology and energy technology. In this sense, functional materials have diverse application ranges, generally covering aerospace, biological medicine, environmental ecology, etc.
Aerospace
Shape memory alloy material can be made into low temperature fit connectors for use in military aircraft hydraulic systems and hence is one of the functional materials most commonly used in aerospace. It can also be made into a trajectory controller for aircraft blades, and has the advantage of reducing vibration and noise.
Biomedicine
As an important part of high technology, biomedical functional materials have entered a new stage of rapid development and become a pillar industry in biomedicine. For example, bioactive ceramics are one of the most commonly used functional materials in the field of biomedicine, which can be made into porous, biological tissue. Another example is biodegradable polymer material, which are often used in the preparation of medical devices and drug packaging.
Artificial intelligence
Intelligent materials or high-tech new functional materials can also find their value in the field of artificial intelligence. Common intelligent materials include piezoelectric materials, shapes and alloys and electrorheological fluids. Piezoelectric materials can convert electrical and mechanical energy and are thus often used to make sensors, transducers, actuators and robots.
Except for being used in the above aspects, functional materials have much potentials in many other fields. For example, practical superconducting materials represented by NbTi and Nb3Sn have been commercialized and have been applied in many fields such as magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI), superconducting magnets and large accelerator magnets. Some functional materials, such as biomimetic materials, alternative materials for harmful substances like freon, asbestos and green new materials, are very important ecological/environmental materials and can be used in the field of environmental protection. Rare-earth materials are also common functional materials that can be used to make catalysts for chemical synthesis and LED energy-saving lamps for everyday use.
The functional materials at Alfa Chemistry Materials include: Charge Transfer Complexes, Macrocycles, Photochromic Materials, Phthalonitriles & Naphthalonitriles, Pressure & Heat Sensitive Recording Materials, Semiconducting Materials, Silane Coupling Agents, and UV Absorbents. For more details, please visit materials.alfachemic.com or email us directly.
