Discuss smart materials focus on piezoelectric materials.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on smart materials focus on piezoelectric materials. In terms of the global perspective, the world has undergone two drastic material-based ages during the past centuries – composite and plastic ages. Concurrently, in the midst of these two noted ages, a new era has become dominant and recognizable [1-4]. This is the era of smart materials. In relation to early definitions, smart/functional materials are those materials that adversely respond to their environment within a shorter time. It is imperative to note that the definition of functional/smart materials has been diversified to materials capable of receiving, transmitting, or processing stimuli such as temperature, stress, strain, pH stimuli, magnetic and electric fields, different radiation types, hydrostatic pressure among other forms of stimuli [5]. They react to this by being capable of producing a useful outcome that may comprise a signal that the materials act upon [1].