Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials: Fundamentals and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 13231
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Interests: multifunctional materials; smart materials; energy storage; energy harvesting; sensors; actuators
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Dear Colleagues,
We live in an era of rapid and strong impact advances in science and technology, where scientific and innovation areas are increasingly overlapping in new and exciting ways, for the benefit of society. Recent technological advances point towards the development of sustainable, wireless, and interconnected autonomous smarter devices, systems, and cities, which are strongly based on the development of smart and multifunctional materials.
In this way, developing new smart and multifunctional materials and exploring their applicability has been the focus of an increasing number of areas, such as in the fields of materials, sensors, actuators, and biomedical applications, among others. Smart and multifunctional materials are benefitting from of this understanding and control of their physico-chemical properties, leading to a suitable tailoring of processability and device integration, shape/morphology, and performance.
In recent decades, multiferroic and magnetoelectric concepts have changed accepted thinking in this regard, resulting in a new generation of high-performance materials that have led to an increased focus on controlling production, structures, and functional responses, as well as on implementation in proof-of-concept applications. Multiferroics and magnetoelectrics have become hot topics in the increasingly scientific and technologically relevant world of smart and multifunctional materials due to the possibility of controlling the electric response with the magnetic field and vice-versa. Sensors, actuators, biomedical scaffolds, four-state memories, and energy harvesters are just some examples of applications that have been reported in recent times.
Despite the progress experienced by the research community in these areas being intense and fruitful, the main issues that should be addressed in order to enable real applications still need to be discussed and are related to improved performance, a deeper understainding of the physico-chemical characteristics of the mateirials, processability, device integration, and reliability. It seems noticeable that open questions and challenges are unceasingly emerging, which also act as a never-ceasing fountain of future research ideas and applications.
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue that seeks to become a landmark in the development of this interesting and fruitfull reseach field. Review papers, full papers, and short communications are all welcome.
Prof. Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez
Dr. Pedro Martins
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multiferroic
- magnetoelectric
- smart materials
- multifunctional materials
- composites
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