Frontiers in Smart Materials: Fundamental Studies and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2022) | Viewed by 2118
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polymer composite; nanomaterial; functional material; self-healing material; biopolymer; biodegradation materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent years have witnessed fascinating developments in various fields of materials science and the step-by-step transformation of scientific progress into novel technologies, which as a rule not only exhibit a substantially enhanced performance but are also friendly toward human health and the environment. The field of heritage conservation, with all its traditionalism and multidisciplinarity, has also profited from this development. However, the specific features of this field have led to a considerable scattering of the literary sources and a lack of mutual information between all the relevant subjects.
This Special Issue will help to overcome these problems. It will provide an opportunity to create a compendium of novel methods, which will not only boost further scientific progress but also provide restorers and artists with a useful literary overview. It is focused on advanced solutions to fundamental conservation problems, the perceptions of which are often far ahead of their solutions.
I cordially invite you to submit your contribution to this issue, whose topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Cleaning, which is efficient, selective, as well as considerate, to the treated artifact;
- Consolidation of a range of materials;
- Long-term preventive protection;
- Extension of material life and self-healing material;
- Protection against biodeterioration in an ecological context;
- Methods suitable for heritage conservation in areas with extreme atmospheric conditions;
- Solutions for facing climate change;
- Heritage conservation and the protection of the environment.
Prof. Dr. Junfeng Su
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart composite materials with polymer matrixes
- smart composite materials on the basis of metals and alloys
- smart composite materials on the basis of ceramics
- smart materials applied in civil engineering
- advanced technologies of smart materials manufacturing
- 3D-printed smart material
- artificial intelligence materials
- bionic intelligent material
- various applications of smart materials
- testing of smart composites
