South Dakota Board of Regents

Applied Research Center, Inc.

Forest Thompson

George G Wicks

Grant A Crawford

An event detection composite in embodiments of the present invention may have one or more of the following features: (a) a plurality of solid and/or hollow and/or porous-wall microspheres, (b) a functional material disposed on or within the plurality of microspheres, wherein the functional material can have unique optical, electrical, magnetic, thermal, or chemical properties, where these properties can be realized upon the plurality of microspheres being exposed to a physical, optical, electrical, magnetic, thermal or chemical stimuli, and (c) a host matrix containing the plurality of microspheres.

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