Responds to Relative Humidity

I need a material that responds mechanically as an indicator of relative humidity. I have looked inside commercial humidistats used in home heating systems. They use some sort of plastic strip that expands and contracts with changes in humidity and trips a microswitch. Is this plastic strip some exotic material, or is it something that is generally available?

-Robert Scott Ypsilanti, Michigan (Reply through this forum, not by direct e-mail to me, as automatic reply address is fake.)

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In older ones (human ?) hair was used.

Try searching the web for "smart materials".

Oliver

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Oliver 'Ojo' Bedford

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