Smart Polymers and Devices: From Principles, Design to Fabrications and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, research on smart polymers has flourished, which is indicated by the continuous growth of related publications, especially in the soft sensing and actuating fields for robotics.

Soft sensors and actuators based on smart polymers gradually become an indispensable component for the design of soft devices. With the capacity of transduction, these smart polymers mainly refer to stimuli-responsive polymers, such as ionic–polymer metal composites (IPMC), dielectric elastomers (DE), hydrogels, ionic gels, conducting polymers, polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF), shape memory polymers (SMP), self-healing polymers, etc.

This Special Issue aims to focus on our understanding and development of the fabrication, design, characterization, control, and applications of sensors and actuators based on smart polymers. We hope that these contributions will provide a solid foundation for future studies. We welcome both original research papers and review articles related to the development and application of devices based on sensors and actuators involving smart polymers.

Prof. Dr. Yanjie Wang
Prof. Dr. Junshi Zhang
Prof. Dr. Longfei Chang
Prof. Dr. Qingsong He
Dr. Jie Ru
Guest Editors

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