Polymer Actuator
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2018)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multifunctional materials; smart materials; energy storage; energy harvesting; sensors; actuators
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Interests: bone and muscle tissue engineering; piezoelectric polymers; active biomaterials; cell/biomaterial interface
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Interests: microfluidics; micro and nanostructured materials; smart and functional materials; biomedicine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Actuators are materials and devices able to produce mechanical work as a response to external stimuli. Thus, mechanical work is produced as a response to an electrical input, temperature or pH variation, among others. This mechanical work can be produced from the nano to the macroscopic scale, allowing therefore a large variety of applications.
In particular, polymer-based actuators are gaining increasing attention due to the large variety of different physical and chemical inputs providing mechanical variations, broad range of strain, stresses and conformation variations, simple processing in a large variety of forms and shapes, as well as the broad application spectra, including robotics, micro and nano-machines, and tissue engineering applications, among others.
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit original research papers, short communications or state-of-the-art reviews within the scope of this Special Issue. Contributions can range from fundamentals, processing and characterization of materials, to innovations in processing technologies or the development of applications.
Prof. Senentxu Lanceros-MéndezDr. Clarisse Ribeiro
Dr. Vanessa Cardoso
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- smart materials
- actuators
- soft robotics
- artificial muscles
- biomedical applications
- multifunctional materials
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