Polymeric Microsystems

Dear Colleagues,

Polymeric microsystems are much more than a cheap alternative to common silicon-based microsystems. In the fields of optics, display technologies, multifunctional electronics, sensors, actuators, energy harvesting, and microfluidics, they offer features which significantly exceed the possibilities of silicon-based systems.

This Special Issue highlights the potential of polymeric microsystems in various fields of applications. It includes:

(i) fabrication technologies for polymeric microsystems,

(ii) concepts of active polymeric components, modules and complete systems,

(iii) modelling and simulation of polymeric material behaviors in components and chips, as well as

(iv) exemplary applications.

Of particular interest are, on the one hand, intrinsically active polymers, such as piezo polymers, shape memory polymers, stimuli-responsive hydrogels and conductive polymers, and, on the other hand, electroactive polymers, such as dielectric elastomers.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Richter
Guest Editor

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