Smart materials [SMS] for today's smart cities: The dawn of a New smart era

An overview is presented of the current research and development of smartmaterials, including shape-memory alloys, shape-memory ceramics,shape-memory polymers, smart planes, intelligent houses, shape memory textiles, micromachines, self-assembling structures, color-changing paint and nano systems. Th smartmaterials exhibit some novel performances, such as sensoring (thermal, stress or field), large-stroke actuation, high damping, adaptive responses, shape memory and superelasticity capability, which can be utilized in various engineering approaches to smart systems. Smart Materials has emerged as a very innovative productand brought a revolution in many fields includingautomobile industry, smart architecture and on the whole developing a new Smart City.This paper also includes a case study of the Smart City: London as well as a smart car which canbe developed using smartmaterials.