Soft Materials and Systems II
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Physics and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2022) | Viewed by 6925
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart soft materials; flexible electronics; soft robots; soft metamaterials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to this the second issue of “Soft Materials and Systems”. Due to the great interest in the first issue, the editorial board decided to reopen this Special Issue focused on the design, manufacturing and applications of soft materials. We are delighted to write the foreword for this second number, which once again affords us the opportunity to reflect on what is advancing in our field.
Soft materials, including gels, elastomers, biological tissues, colloids, and liquid metals, can generate large deformation in response to external stimuli such as force, heat, light, sound, electric field, magnetic field, ions, pH, and solutions. The deformation of soft materials or systems may give tunable and configurable novel properties and functions that will be critical to many important applications. The engineering of soft materials with functional elements, molecules, structures, processing, or manufacturing, offers unprecedented opportunities to existing technologies and industries, addressing the challenges from flexible electronics, soft robotics, medical devices, surgical procedures, and health care.
This Special Issue invites original papers and reviews reporting on recent progress in but not limited to the flowing areas:
- Soft and nature-inspired materials with striking new properties and functions
- Flexible electronics
- Soft robotics
- Metamaterials
- Mechanics of interface between soft materials and hard materials
- Additive manufacturing
- Shape memory polymers
- Compliant energy sources
- Applications: wearable, body-attachable, or implantable materials and devices, medical devices, health care
Prof. Dr. Jianfeng Zang
Dr. Shaoting Lin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soft and nature-inspired materials
- flexible electronics
- soft robots
- flexible sensors
- large deformation mechanics
- processing and manufacturing
- wearable electronics
- compliant energy sources
- medical devices
- health care
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