Active Materials for Medical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

For the attention of engineers, physicists, medical doctors, researchers, and scientists, we intend to analyze and discuss different topics on active materials for medical applications. There is a great potential in the use of active or smart materials (metallic, polymer or ceramic) for the progress of applications in the medical domain of MEMS, actuators, sensors or functional systems. Active or “smart” materials have the ability to respond to different physical or chemical stimuli in a specific, repeatable mode. The actual activity in the domain, however, presents problems connected to obtaining and processing, characterization, modeling, and simulation or prototyping technologies.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences intends to focus on the most recent advances in obtaining active materials used in the medical field with enhanced performance.

Prof. Nicanor Cimpoesu
Dr. Ramona Cimpoesu
Guest Editor

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