I presently, or currently, work with smart materials, and a smart thermo bimetal.

So, if we could have the lights down and have it as dark in here as possible, I have a flask that has bioluminescent plankton in it.

So what we're trying to do is do reactions not in one flask, but in tens of flasks, and connect them together, as you can see with this flow system, all these pipes.

What you're looking at on this slide is just a person from my lab holding a flask of a liquid culture of a bacterium, a harmless beautiful bacterium that comes from the ocean, named Vibrio fischeri.

On the left, it's when it's cold and the thermo bimetal is flat so it will constrict air from passing through the blocks, and on the right, the thermo bimetal curls and allows that air to pass through, so those are two different components that I'm working on, and again, it's a completely different thing, because you can imagine that air could potentially be coming through the walls instead of opening windows.

The prime system contractor, Martin Marietta Astrospace, completed the production of all thermo electric elements for all three RTG apos s during the year, and fabrication activities on other portions of the RTG apos s remained on schedule.

It's still with that glass box because we still want that visual access, but now it's sheathed with this thermo bimetal layer, it's a screen that goes around it, and that layer can actually open and close as that sun moves around on that surface.

Modern buildings with floor to ceiling windows give spectacular views, but they require a lot of energy to cool. Doris Kim Sung works with thermo bimetals, smart materials that act more like human skin, dynamically and responsively, and can shade a room from sun and self ventilate.

And so you see here some early studies of blocks, where those holes are actually coming through, and this is before the thermo bimetal is applied, and this is after the bimetal is applied. Sorry, it's a little hard to see, but on the surfaces, you can see these red arrows.

Some of the options were the introduction of thermo insulation of households, efficient refrigerators, efficient lighting, thermostats for electric boilers, prepaid meters for household consumers, solar water heating systems in households, improved air conditioning systems, implementation of demand side management programmes, promotion of fuel switching, and use of renewable energy.

When you're tired of opening and closing those blinds day after day, when you're on vacation and there's no one there on the weekends to be turning off and on the controls, or when there's a power outage, and you have no electricity to rely on, these thermo bimetals will still be working tirelessly, efficiently and endlessly. Thank you.

It's called Bloom, and the surface is made completely out of thermo bimetal, and its intention is to make this canopy that does two things. One, it's a sun shading device, so that when the sun hits the surface, it constricts the amount of sun passing through, and in other areas, it's a ventilating system, so that hot, trapped air underneath can actually move through and out when necessary.