Smart Materials for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on “Smart Materials for Micro Electro Mechanicanical Systems (MEMS)” for Materials will publish original work focusing on the development of smart materials with a MEMS target application. Papers can include areas focusing on fabrication techniques, material characterization, the development of novel materials, enhancing material properties, integration with MEMS, sensing, and actuation. MEMS applications of interest include energy conversion, BioMEMS, resonators, sensors, and actuators.

Smart or functional materials are often the key components required to allow the MEMS device to operate, and therefore they should be the main focus of the submitted manuscript. Significant advances in this area continue to enhance MEMS performance, and novel material or integration techniques allow next generation MEMS devices to be developed. Possible smart materials range from but are not limited to piezoelectrics, magnetcs, photonics, triboelectrics, stimuli-responsive polymers, composites, hybrids, flexible/stretchable, photomechanical, and shape memory materials. Methods of depositing MEMS materials using additive manufacturing methods are also welcome. Manuscripts should focus on the smart material developed, but should also include information on the entended MEMS device or application.  

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit an original manuscript to this Special Issue. Full communications and review papers are welcome.

Assist. Prof. Nathan Jackson
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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