Smart Materials (Civ6)

Smart Materials
Technology of the Future Era
Introduced in Civilization VI
Cost	2200
Eureka Boost	Boost through Spy.
Technologies
Required	None
Required	None
Leads to	None
Leads to	None
Notes
Enables Project: Exoplanet Expedition Unlocks Giant Death Robot upgrade: Reinforced Armor Plating +10 Combat Strength when defending against land and naval units.

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 "It ascends from the earth to the heaven, and it again descends to the earth and receives the force of the things superior and inferior."
– Hermes Trismegistus

Smart Materials is a Future Era technology in Civilization VI: Gathering Storm.

Strategy

Researching Smart Materials allows the Exoplanet Expedition project, the fourth step toward winning a Science Victory, to be undertaken. It also unlocks Reinforced Armor Plating, an upgrade for Giant Death Robots that increases their Combat Strength when defending against land and naval attacks.

Civilopedia entry

Materials are usually selected for use on the basis of a single quality. A brick, for instance, should not be flexible if it is to be a good basis for construction. Smart materials are materials which can assume different properties on command, in response to different situations. An analogy would be a brick that is solid when used as a building material, but which could be flat and flexible for easy storage and portability otherwise. These are becoming more and more common as material science advances. Ferrofluids, and dielectric and self-healing elastomers are representative examples of current smart materials.

The term “programmable matter” is used to describe a hypothetical substance which could be given any property on command, and represents something of the Holy Grail of the smart material research program.

Civilization VI Science Victory steps [edit]
All game versions
	1. Launch a satellite Research Rocketry Build a Spaceport Finish the Launch Earth Satellite project
	2. Land a human on the Moon Research Satellites Finish the Launch Moon Landing project
Vanilla Civilization VI and Rise and Fall		Gathering Storm
	3. Establish a Martian Colony Research Nuclear Fusion Finish the Launch Mars Reactor project Research Nanotechnology Finish the Launch Mars Hydroponics project Research Robotics Finish the Launch Mars Habitation project		3. Establish a Martian Colony Research Nanotechnology Finish the Launch Mars Colony project
			4. Launch an Exoplanet Expedition Research Smart Materials Finish the Exoplanet Expedition project
			5. Help the Exoplanet Expedition travel 50 light years Optional: Finish the Terrestrial Laser Station project Optional: Finish the Lagrange Laser Station project