Metamaterials and Microfluidics for Sensors and Actuators

Dear Colleagues,

The development of new composite materials, including metamaterials for lab-on-a-chip platforms, will make it possible to rapidly optimize the performance of these devices by controlling the desired wave propagation through their structures and minimizing energy costs. They include, among others, vibrations and acoustic waves in solid media and fluids, respectively. This represents a paradigm shift in the development of new sensors and actuators which will not be reversed.

This Special Issue aims to advance the theoretical and experimental knowledge of metamaterials and, in particular, those involved in the microfluidic platform with diverse sensing and actuation applications.

New chip design configurations associated with these complex materials are expected to be produced and may be especially relevant in biomimetic approaches for biomedical and environmental applications.

Submissions from various disciplines are welcome to set trends for the next generation of efficient sensors and actuators.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• The theoretical and numerical study of wave propagation in metamaterials;
• Space-time variable metamaterials;
• Microfluidics and metamaterials;
• Applications of metamaterial-based devices;
• Biometamaterials.

Dr. Itziar González
Guest Editor

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• metamaterials
• structures
• microfluidics
• wave propagation
• elastic structures
• sensors
• actuators