Soft Materials
This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soft materials is an increasingly active field of research driving science and technology into new exciting directions. Large deformations coupled with various multiphysics phenomena and instabilities at different length scales open an immensely rich research arena. This offers unique opportunities to develop multifunctional materials and devices with novel properties, through the targeted design of material composition and microstructural geometry. Moreover, soft materials represent essential components in biological tissues, a topic of extreme interest for bio-medical applications.
This Special Issue will focus on recent experimental, computational, theoretical and manufacturing advances in the broad field of Soft Materials.
Prof. Dr. Stephan Rudykh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Electroactive and magnetoactive elastomers (EAP, DE, MRE, MAE, IPMC)
- Hydrogels and other soft wet materials
- Liquid crystal elastomers
- Shape-memory and light-sensitive polymers
- Instabilities in soft materials
- Fracture, and adhesion in soft materials
- Soft biological and bio-inspired materials
- Multiphysics phenomena in soft materials
- Wave propagation and dynamics of soft materials
- 3D/4D printing and fabrication of soft materials
- Soft Robotics or Machines
- Mechanical Metamaterials
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Published Papers
Materials - ISSN 1996-1944