Editorial Board for section 'Actuator Materials'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518061, China
Interests: piezoelectric actuators and ultrasonic motors; piezoelectric ceramic and polymer materials; magnetoelectric composite materials and magnetic sensors; 3D printing fabrication of piezoelectric composite materials and devices
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Electroactive Technologies and NDEAA Lab, Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), California Institute of Technology (CIT), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Interests: electroactive polymers and piezoelectric actuators; NDE; biomimetics

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G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Interests: piezoelectrics; ferroelectrics; thin films; processing-structure-properties; materials characterization; radiation effects; piezoceramics; piezoMEMS

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Institute for Multidisciplinary Design and Innovation (IMDI), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E3, Canada
Interests: multidisciplinary engineering design; multiscale analysis and design of multifunctional lightweight structures
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Laboratory for Acoustics/Noise Control, Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Ueberlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
Interests: phononic materials: purely mechanical structures as well as phononic materials comprised of piezoelectric elements and other elements with electro-mechanical coupling
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Materials Research Centre, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Interests: piezoelectrics; ferroelectrics; actuators; modelling; ceramics; piezoceramics; piezocomposites
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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy
Interests: smart materials; stimuli-responsive materials; bioprinting; tissue engineering; biomaterials
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Department of Electronic and Information Systems, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo 337-8570, Japan
Interests: adaptive control; hysteresis; modelling; sliding mode control; smart material-based actuators

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NSFI/UCRC on Smart Vehicle Concepts, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, E307 Scott Laboratory, 201 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: smart materials and structures; ultrasonic additive manufacturing
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Industrial Engineering Department, University of Trento, Via Sommarive, 9, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
Interests: dielectric elastomer actuators; electrostatic actuators; dielectric fluid actuators; transparent transmission systems; exoskeletons; hydrostatic transmissions; variable stiffness actuators; energy efficiency

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Department of Advanced Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Toyota Technological Institute, 12-1, Hisakata 2-Chome, Tempaku-ku, Nagoya 468-8511, Japan
Interests: piezoelectric actuator; piezoelectric mover; control of piezoelectric actuator; driver for piezoelectric actuator; near-field ultrasonic levitation; vibration-assisted machining
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Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: 4D printing; smart materials and structures; 3D printing; mechanics of soft materials; soft robotics; flexible electronics
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Dynamics and Mechatronics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Paderborn University, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
Interests: application of multifunctional materials in mechanical engineering; model based development of piezoelectric motors, ultrasonic systems and processes; ultrasonic bonding and welding

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State Key Lab of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical, Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Interests: ultrasonic sensors and actuators; ultrasonic nanofabrication and ultrasonic micro/nano/molecular manipulations
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School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Interests: shape memory materials and technology; sensors and actuators; 4D printing
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-ku, Incheon 22212, Korea
Interests: lignin-derived resins; nanocellulose multifunctional composites; smart materials and devices, including electroactive polymers; power harvesting; soft actuators; biosensors; flexible electronics; smart optics
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
Interests: electroactive polymer; ionic polymer-metal composite; metal hydride actuator
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Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B9, Canada
Interests: carbon based electronics; bioelectronics; laser material processing; soft actuators; micro-optical transducers; light driven micromachines
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Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Interests: smart soft matter; advanced photonics; optoelectronic materials; energy harvesting; biocompatible materials; nanoparticles; nanoengineering; device fabrication

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Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0085, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Interests: stimuli-responsive materials; nanocomposites; sensors and actuators; soft materials; tomography
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Department of Functional Machinery & Mechanics, Shinshu University, Tokida, Ueda 386-8576, Japan
Interests: plolymer based composites; composite structures; mechanical/electric/shapememory drived sensors/actuators; energy harvesting; multifunctional actuators

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA
Interests: photo-thermal actuators; nanocomposites; modeling and control; polymer actuators; electromechanical/electro-chemical actuators; mems sensors and actuators; nanoelectromechanical systems; straintronics; carbon nanotubes; graphene; transition metal dichalcogenides; electroactive polymers
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National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Center for Composite Materials and Structures, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, China
Interests: smart materials and structural actuators; soft materials and structural actuators; sensors and actuators; biomimetics; soft robotics

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National School of Engineering in Tarbes (ENIT), National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT), University of Toulouse, 65000 Tarbes, France
Interests: mechatronics and micromechatronics; robotics and microrobotics; smart materials based systems; piezoelecticity and piezoelectric systems; actuators and microactuators; miniaturized sensors; modeling; control; estimation; observers; identification
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Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, UMR 7086, 15 rue Jean‐Antoine de Baïf, F‐75013 Paris, France
Interests: electrochemical devices (actutators, supercapacitor, batteries, solar fuel cell); electromechanical modelling; charge transfer in ionic liquid and nanomaterials (graphene, carbon nanotube, conducting polymers)

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University, 42 W Warren Ave, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Interests: advanced functional nanomaterials; high-temperature microbatteries and supercapacitors; Li-S & Li-O2 chemistries; fuel cells
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Electronic Ceramics Department, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: piezoelectrics; perovskites; ceramic processing; structure–properties relationships
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Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 3, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: shape memory materials; 3D printing; 4D printing; constitutive modeling; finite element method; mechanics of materials; soft actuators; soft robotics
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Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
Interests: smart materials; adaptive structures; magnetorheological fluids (MRFs) and magnetorheological elastomers; MRE- and MRF-based structures and systems; adaptive vibration absorbers and isolators; smart composite and sandwich structures
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Department of Systems Engineering and Department of Material Science and Engineering, Saarland University, 66119 Saarbrücken, Germany
Interests: smart material systems; actuators; sensors; dielectric elastomers; shape memory alloys; elastocalorics
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