Section Editors
- Editorial Board
- Actuators for Land Transport Section
- Aircraft Actuators Section
- Actuators for Medical Instruments Section
- Actuators for Robotics Section
- Actuators for Manufacturing Systems Section
- Actuator Materials Section
- High Torque/Power Density Actuators Section
- Precision Actuators Section
- Miniaturized and Micro Actuators Section
- Control Systems Section
Section Board for 'Actuator Materials' (18)
Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.
Interests: piezoelectric actuator; ultrasonic motor; piezo-transformer; high power piezoelectrics; loss mechanism; Pb-free piezoelectrics; piezoelectric composite; multilayer actuator; relaxor piezoelectric single crystal; piezoelectric energy harvesting; piezoelectric driver
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Actuators: Piezoelectric Actuators and Ultrasonic Motors: Future Perspectives
Topical Collection in Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Piezoelectrics
Special Issue in Actuators: Non-toxic Actuator Materials
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
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Interests: smart materials with sensing, actuation, and energy transduction functions, particularly including ferroelectric, piezoelectric and dielectric materials; design, fabrication, and characterization of sensors, actuators, and transducers enabled by the functional mechanisms of these smart materials, and their applications
Interests: piezoelectrics; energy harvesting; self-powered sensors
Interests: electroactive polymers and piezoelectric actuators; NDE; biomimetics
Interests: nano and micro mechanics of materials; mechanical behavior of smart materials; kinetic laws for martensitic and twinning transformations; ultra-fast SMA actuators; micro SMA actuators; ferromagnetic SMA (FSMA) actuators; magnetostrictive composite materials
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Interests: piezoelectric actuators; ultrasonic motors; nano fabrications; ultrasonic sensors; micro/nano manipulations
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Interests: piezoelectric actuator; piezoelectric mover; control of piezoelectric actuator; driver for piezoelectric actuator; near-field ultrasonic levitation; vibration-assisted machining
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Interests: 4D printing; smart materials and structures; 3D printing; mechanics of soft materials; soft robotics; flexible electronics
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Polymers: Shape Memory Polymers III
Interests: smart material-based actuators; dielectric elastomers; soft actuators
Interests: adaptive control; hysteresis; modelling; sliding mode control; smart material-based actuators
Interests: mechatronic systems; control systems; modeling; energy-based modeling and control; robust control; motion control; interaction control; self-sensing; smart materials; shape memory alloys; dielectric elastomers; soft actuators; soft robotics
Interests: smart material systems; actuators; sensors; dielectric elastomers; shape memory alloys; elastocalorics
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Actuators: Smart Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Systems
Interests: dielectric elastomer actuators; electrostatic actuators; dielectric fluid actuators; transparent transmission systems; exoskeletons; hydrostatic transmissions; variable stiffness actuators; energy efficiency
Interests: shape memory materials and technology; sensors and actuators; 4D printing
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Special Issue in Polymers: Shape-Memory Polymers
Special Issue in Polymers: Shape Memory Polymers
Special Issue in Polymers: Shape Memory Polymers III
Special Issue in Actuators: Shape Memory Alloy Actuators
Interests: piezoelectrics; ferroelectrics; thin films; processing-structure-properties; materials characterization; radiation effects; piezoceramics; piezoMEMS
Interests: nanocomposites; carbon nanomaterials; 2D materials; micro/nanomechanics; adhesion properties; smart materials and structures; flexible and stretchable devices
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Interests: piezoelectrics; perovskites; ceramic processing; structure–properties relationships
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals