Development of Applications of Polymer-Based Sensors and Actuators
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 1167
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Interests: sensor instrumentation; sensor data communication; signal treatment and filtering; flexible device design; printing of smart materials and electronics
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Interests: printed electronics; flexible and organic electronics; conducting polymers; printing technologies; photophysics and photonics; ink formulation; functional materials
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Interests: polymer composites; additive manufacturing; functional materials; sensors and actuators; energy harvesting; stretchable sensors; natural polymers; prototypes devices
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the last decade, the development of automotive technology due to the advent of electrical vehicles in the pursuit of stricter environmental requirements has enabled increased comfort, as well as smart new features and mechanisms as auxiliary driving structures. All of these tasks rely on sensors and actuators, already representing a considerable portion of automobile costs, where polymeric flexible and conformable sensing are likely to be adopted further. Additionally, when considering integration with artificial intelligence, the requirements for physical data harvesters will increase in order to process internal and surrounding environments.
Therefore, sensors/actuators which are able to transduce thermal stimuli, magnetic signals, pressure/force, humidity, and radiation, as well as flexible batteries used for energy storage to power remote sensors, are topics that may feature in original research or article review papers. Thus, this Special Issue is open to contributions on the development and applicability of polymeric sensors/actuators, with special emphasis on the automotive industry, as well as following:
- Flexible sensor/actuator development, design, assembly, and characterization;
- Hybrid solutions between flexible and rigid devices or machined electronics;
- Theoretical and experimental studies concerning mitigation methods for flexible devices response hysteresis, drift, mechanical wear, etc.;
- Studies of flexible sensors and actuators towards artificial intelligence integration on vehicles.
Dr. Nelson Castro
Dr. Nikola Perinka
Dr. Pedro Costa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sensor ubiquity on vehicles
- flexible sensing
- polymer base device
- hybrid multi-sensing
- conformable devices
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