Advances in Electrorheological and Magnetorheological Materials: Material Design, Control and Industrial Applications

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue (dedicated to the ERMR2025 Conference) aims to highlight the latest advancements in the field of Electrorheological (ER) and Magnetorheological (MR) materials, focusing on their design, control and diverse industrial applications. These smart materials, which exhibit rapid and reversible changes in their mechanical properties when exposed to external electric and magnetic fields, are paving the way for transformative advancements, in industries ranging from the automotive and robotics industries to aerospace, healthcare and civil infrastructures. The contributions to this Special Issue reflect innovative research on the design, synthesis and characterization of ER and MR materials. In addition, the Issue explores recent progress in control mechanisms, material behavior modeling, and integration into real-world applications. The ability to manipulate the mechanical properties of these functional materials in real-time offers immense potential in areas such as adaptive suspension systems, haptic technologies, adaptive vibration absorbers and isolators, electro- and magneto-soft robotics, and adaptive prosthetics. This Special Issue welcomes contributions on all aspects of ER and MR material including, but not limited to, the following areas: 

• Electrorheological (ER) fluids: materials and physical properties;
• Electrorheological gels and elastomers;
• Ferrofluids: materials and applications;
• Magneto-active soft robotics and actuators;
• Magneto-active metamaterials;
• Magnetorheological (MR) suspensions: materials and characteristics;
• MR elastomers and gels: materials and physical properties;
• MR- and ER-based adaptive vibration absorbers and isolators;
• Aerospace and ground technologies featuring MR and ER materials;
• Stimuli-responsive bio-materials and colloids;
• Emerging stimuli-responsive materials including graphene, graphene oxide, LC, Pickering, and new types of magnetic particles;
• Smart fluid-based energy saving and harvesting;
• ER and MR polishing;
• Engineering applications of ER and MR materials;
• Innovative techniques in magnetic actuation: Helmholtz and Maxwell coils;
• Medical and pharmaceutical applications of ER and MR materials;
• Other related field-responsive systems.

Prof. Dr. Ramin Sedaghati
Prof. Dr. Norman M. Wereley
Prof. Dr. Subhash Rakheja
Guest Editors

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