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  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,139 Views
19 Pages

Smart Materials for Green(er) Cities, a Short Review

  • Pascal Nicolay,
  • Sandra Schlögl,
  • Stephan Mark Thaler,
  • Claude Humbert and
  • Bernd Filipitsch

16 August 2023

The transition to sustainable or green(er) cities requires the development and implementation of many innovative technologies. It is vital to ensure that these technologies are themselves as sustainable and green as possible. In this context, smart m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
166 Citations
14,203 Views
19 Pages

Progress in the Applications of Smart Piezoelectric Materials for Medical Devices

  • Angelika Zaszczyńska,
  • Arkadiusz Gradys and
  • Paweł Sajkiewicz

22 November 2020

Smart piezoelectric materials are of great interest due to their unique properties. Piezoelectric materials can transform mechanical energy into electricity and vice versa. There are mono and polycrystals (piezoceramics), polymers, and composites in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,943 Views
29 Pages

Microrobots Based on Smart Materials with Their Manufacturing Methods and Applications

  • Jiawei Sun,
  • Shuxiang Cai,
  • Wenguang Yang,
  • Huiwen Leng,
  • Zhixing Ge and
  • Tangying Liu

In recent years, the field of microrobots has exploded, yielding many exciting new functions and applications, from object grasping and release to in vivo drug transport. Smart responsive materials have had a profound impact on the field of microrobo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,651 Views
29 Pages

Sustainability of Civil Structures through the Application of Smart Materials: A Review

  • Alireza Tabrizikahou,
  • Mieczysław Kuczma,
  • Piotr Nowotarski,
  • Małgorzata Kwiatek and
  • Ahad Javanmardi

25 August 2021

Every year, structural flaws or breakdowns cause thousands of people to be harmed and cost billions of dollars owing to the limitations of design methods and materials to withstand extreme earthquakes. Since earthquakes have a significant effect on s...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,644 Views
10 Pages

11 December 2023

Piezoelectric smart materials have gained significant attention in various technological applications due to their ability to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice versa. These materials have diverse energy harvesting, sensing, ac...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,984 Views
26 Pages

A Review of Robotic Fish Based on Smart Materials

  • Shiwei Ma,
  • Quanliang Zhao,
  • Meixi Ding,
  • Mengying Zhang,
  • Lei Zhao,
  • Can Huang,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Xu Liang,
  • Junjie Yuan and
  • Guangping He
  • + 1 author

The present study focuses on summarizing the recent advancements in the field of fish swimming mode research and bionic robotic fish prototypes based on smart materials. It has been widely acknowledged that fish exhibit exceptional swimming efficienc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
13,958 Views
28 Pages

31 January 2023

The rapid development of the aviation industry has put forward higher and higher requirements for material properties, and the research on smart material structure has also received widespread attention. Smart materials (e.g., piezoelectric materials...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,461 Views
33 Pages

21 December 2023

Laser processing is a versatile tool that enhances smart materials for diverse industries, allowing precise changes in material properties and customization of surface characteristics. It drives the development of smart materials with adaptive proper...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,221 Views
30 Pages

Innovative Smart Materials in Restorative Dentistry

  • Roxana Ionela Vasluianu,
  • Livia Bobu,
  • Iulian-Costin Lupu,
  • Magda Antohe,
  • Bogdan Petru Bulancea,
  • Antonia Moldovanu,
  • Ovidiu Stamatin,
  • Catalina Cioloca Holban and
  • Ana Maria Dima

The growing challenge of biofilm-associated infections in dentistry necessitates advanced solutions. This review highlights the potential of smart bioactive and antibacterial materials—bioactive glass ceramics (BGCs), silver nanoparticle (AgNP)...

  • Review
  • Open Access
467 Citations
30,962 Views
44 Pages

28 February 2013

Cellulose is the most abundant biomass material in nature, and possesses some promising properties, such as mechanical robustness, hydrophilicity, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. Thus, cellulose has been widely applied in many fields. “Smart”...

  • Review
  • Open Access
158 Citations
18,781 Views
34 Pages

Recent Advances in the Development of Smart and Active Biodegradable Packaging Materials

  • Mahmood Alizadeh Sani,
  • Maryam Azizi-Lalabadi,
  • Milad Tavassoli,
  • Keyhan Mohammadi and
  • David Julian McClements

Interest in the development of smart and active biodegradable packaging materials is increasing as food manufacturers try to improve the sustainability and environmental impact of their products, while still maintaining their quality and safety. Acti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,204 Views
24 Pages

Advantages and Prospective Implications of Smart Materials in Tissue Engineering: Piezoelectric, Shape Memory, and Hydrogels

  • Keisheni Ganeson,
  • Cindy Tan Xue May,
  • Amirul Al Ashraf Abdullah,
  • Seeram Ramakrishna and
  • Sevakumaran Vigneswari

Conventional biomaterial is frequently used in the biomedical sector for various therapies, imaging, treatment, and theranostic functions. However, their properties are fixed to meet certain applications. Smart materials respond in a controllable and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
9,516 Views
16 Pages

Recent Advances in Bio-Based Smart Active Packaging Materials

  • Tingyu Song,
  • Sheng Qian,
  • Tiantong Lan,
  • Yuzhu Wu,
  • Jingsheng Liu and
  • Hao Zhang

26 July 2022

The shortage of oil resources is currently a global problem. The use of renewable resources instead of non-renewable ones has become a hot topic of research in the eyes of scientists. In the food industry, there is a lot of interest in bio-based smar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,971 Views
14 Pages

Gas Foil Bearing Technology Enhanced with Smart Materials

  • Adam Martowicz,
  • Jakub Roemer,
  • Sławomir Kantor,
  • Paweł Zdziebko,
  • Grzegorz Żywica and
  • Paweł Bagiński

19 March 2021

The paper discusses a perspective of the usage of various types of smart materials to enhance the operational properties of Gas Foil Bearings. The authors, referring to the current investigation on thermomechanical characteristics of the above-mentio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
429 Views
27 Pages

Recent Advances in Reversible Thermochromic Materials for Smart Textiles: A Review

  • Qiucheng Lu,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Xiaohui Zhao,
  • Ziqiang Bi,
  • Hailin Li and
  • Yuqing Liu

14 February 2026

Reversible thermochromic materials change color in response to temperature variations and hold significant potential in smart textiles. Their reversible color-changing property not only offers temperature indication and enhances textile performance b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,382 Views
26 Pages

Coumarins into Polyurethanes for Smart and Functional Materials

  • José María Cuevas,
  • Rubén Seoane-Rivero,
  • Rodrigo Navarro and
  • Ángel Marcos-Fernández

10 March 2020

Polyurethanes are of undoubted interest for the scientific community and the industry. Their outstanding versatility from tailor-made structures turns them into major polymers for use in a wide range of different applications. As with other polymers,...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
74 Citations
4,992 Views
32 Pages

30 October 2023

The emerging field of regenerative medicine holds immense promise for addressing complex tissue and organ regeneration challenges. Central to its advancement is the evolution of additive manufacturing techniques, which have transcended static constru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,012 Views
13 Pages

Buttons on Demand Sliding Mechanism Driven by Smart Materials and Mechanical Design

  • Christianto Renata,
  • Manivannan Sivaperuman Kalairaj,
  • Hong Mei Chen,
  • Gih Keong Lau and
  • Wei Min Huang

29 September 2021

In this paper, we describe a novel human interaction platform in a car, called buttons on demand, that will serve as buttons inside the interior of a car, which can be called upon and activated when required but remain concealed and inactive when not...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,415 Views
24 Pages

27 October 2021

Over the last few decades, advanced manufacturing and additive printing technologies have made incredible inroads into the fields of engineering, transportation, and healthcare. Among additive manufacturing technologies, 3D printing is gradually emer...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
12,352 Views
32 Pages

A Comprehensive Review of Stimuli-Responsive Smart Polymer Materials—Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

  • Alicja Balcerak-Woźniak,
  • Monika Dzwonkowska-Zarzycka and
  • Janina Kabatc-Borcz

28 August 2024

Today, smart materials are commonly used in various fields of science and technology, such as medicine, electronics, soft robotics, the chemical industry, the automotive field, and many others. Smart polymeric materials hold good promise for the futu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,608 Views
16 Pages

A Weigh-in-Motion Characterization Algorithm for Smart Pavements Based on Conductive Cementitious Materials

  • Hasan Borke Birgin,
  • Simon Laflamme,
  • Antonella D’Alessandro,
  • Enrique Garcia-Macias and
  • Filippo Ubertini

24 January 2020

Smart materials are promising technologies for reducing the instrumentation cost required to continuously monitor road infrastructures, by transforming roadways into multifunctional elements capable of self-sensing. This study investigates a novel al...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,353 Views
29 Pages

What Is Driving the Growth of Inorganic Glass in Smart Materials and Opto-Electronic Devices?

  • Daniel Alves Barcelos,
  • Diana C. Leitao,
  • Laura C. J. Pereira and
  • Maria Clara Gonçalves

29 May 2021

Inorganic glass is a transparent functional material and one of the few materials that keeps leading innovation. In the last decades, inorganic glass was integrated into opto-electronic devices such as optical fibers, semiconductors, solar cells, tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,908 Views
17 Pages

4 February 2020

The latest directions of research on the design of protective clothing concern the implementation of smart materials, in order to increase its protective performance. This paper presents results on the resistance to thermal factors such as flames, ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
93 Citations
11,455 Views
26 Pages

Role of Wide Bandgap Materials in Power Electronics for Smart Grids Applications

  • Javier Ballestín-Fuertes,
  • Jesús Muñoz-Cruzado-Alba,
  • José F. Sanz-Osorio and
  • Erika Laporta-Puyal

At present, the energy transition is leading to the replacement of large thermal power plants by distributed renewable generation and the introduction of different assets. Consequently, a massive deployment of power electronics is expected. A particu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,233 Views
27 Pages

Traditional printed products have to some extent affected the development of smart structures and their application in multiple fields, especially in harsh environments, due to their complex mechanisms and control principles. The 4D printing technolo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,445 Views
14 Pages

Fundamental Issues in the Qualification of Smart and Intelligence in Building Materials Discourse: A Systematic Review

  • Ikechukwu Ogwu,
  • Zhilin Long,
  • Deuckhang Lee,
  • Xuhui Zhang,
  • Wei Zhang and
  • Moses Okonkwo

18 November 2021

The fundamental notion of ‘smart’ in building materials discourse is responsiveness—the ability of materials to react to environmental stimuli by manifesting a noticeable physical change when there is a difference in the conditions of their immediate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,612 Views
18 Pages

20 November 2023

In 4D printing, an additively manufactured component is given the ability to change its shape or function in an intended and useful manner over time. The technology of 4D printing is still in an early stage of development. Nevertheless, interesting r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,510 Views
33 Pages

25 June 2023

The introduction of smart materials will become increasingly relevant as biomedical technologies progress. Smart materials sense and respond to external stimuli (e.g., chemical, electrical, mechanical, or magnetic signals) or environmental circumstan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,205 Views
12 Pages

A Review on Current Trends of Polymers in Orthodontics: BPA-Free and Smart Materials

  • Rozita Hassan,
  • Muhammad Umar Aslam Khan,
  • Abdul Manaf Abdullah and
  • Saiful Izwan Abd Razak

27 April 2021

Polymeric materials have always established an edge over other classes of materials due to their potential applications in various fields of biomedical engineering. Orthodontics is an emerging field in which polymers have attracted the enormous atten...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
9,459 Views
25 Pages

Application of New Energy Thermochromic Composite Thermosensitive Materials of Smart Windows in Recent Years

  • Yu-Qin Feng,
  • Mei-Ling Lv,
  • Ming Yang,
  • Wen-Xia Ma,
  • Gang Zhang,
  • Yun-Zi Yu,
  • Ya-Qi Wu,
  • Hai-Bo Li,
  • De-Zheng Liu and
  • Yong-Sheng Yang

Thermochromic smart windows technology can intelligently regulate indoor solar radiation by changing indoor light transmittance in response to thermal stimulation, thus reducing energy consumption of the building. In recent years, with the developmen...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
207 Citations
27,978 Views
26 Pages

Shape Memory Polymers as Smart Materials: A Review

  • Tarek Dayyoub,
  • Aleksey V. Maksimkin,
  • Olga V. Filippova,
  • Victor V. Tcherdyntsev and
  • Dmitry V. Telyshev

26 August 2022

Polymer smart materials are a broad class of polymeric materials that can change their shapes, mechanical responses, light transmissions, controlled releases, and other functional properties under external stimuli. A good understanding of the aspects...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,094 Views
17 Pages

Mapping Smart Materials’ Literature: An Insight between 1990 and 2022

  • Raul Mihai Petrașcu,
  • Sever-Gabriel Racz and
  • Dan-Mihai Rusu

23 October 2023

The field of smart materials (SMs) is an area of great interest in the scientific community and one that is growing considerably from year to year due to the features this field brings to the development of high-performance products and applications....

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,946 Views
46 Pages

3 October 2025

People with disabilities often face challenges like moving around independently and depending on personal caregivers for daily life activities. Traditional assistive devices are universally accepted by these communities, but they are designed with on...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,504 Views
14 Pages

Smart Dental Materials Intelligently Responding to Oral pH to Combat Caries: A Literature Review

  • Kan Yu,
  • Qinrou Zhang,
  • Zixiang Dai,
  • Minjia Zhu,
  • Le Xiao,
  • Zeqing Zhao,
  • Yuxing Bai and
  • Ke Zhang

8 June 2023

Smart dental materials are designed to intelligently respond to physiological changes and local environmental stimuli to protect the teeth and promote oral health. Dental plaque, or biofilms, can substantially reduce the local pH, causing demineraliz...

  • Review
  • Open Access
139 Citations
13,820 Views
25 Pages

Piezoelectric Scaffolds as Smart Materials for Neural Tissue Engineering

  • Angelika Zaszczynska,
  • Paweł Sajkiewicz and
  • Arkadiusz Gradys

8 January 2020

Injury to the central or peripheral nervous systems leads to the loss of cognitive and/or sensorimotor capabilities, which still lacks an effective treatment. Tissue engineering in the post-injury brain represents a promising option for cellular repl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
16,404 Views
13 Pages

A Review of Smart Materials in Tactile Actuators for Information Delivery

  • Xin Xie,
  • Sanwei Liu,
  • Chenye Yang,
  • Zhengyu Yang,
  • Tian Liu,
  • Juncai Xu,
  • Cheng Zhang and
  • Xianglin Zhai

8 December 2017

As the largest organ in the human body, the skin provides the important sensory channel for humans to receive external stimulations based on touch. By the information perceived through touch, people can feel and guess the properties of objects, like...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,015 Views
16 Pages

Because of the improved physical, mechanical and crack–resistant properties, smart cementitious materials have garnered significant attention in civil engineering. However, the method of predicting performance of smart cementitious materials re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,564 Views
11 Pages

Smart Materials: Cementitious Mortars and PCM Mechanical and Thermal Characterization

  • Federico Orsini,
  • Paola Marrone,
  • Silvia Santini,
  • Lorena Sguerri,
  • Francesco Asdrubali,
  • Giorgio Baldinelli,
  • Francesco Bianchi and
  • Andrea Presciutti

27 July 2021

Climate change (CC) is predominantly connected to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the construction sector. It is clear how it is necessary to rethink construction materials in order to reduce GHG emissions. Among the various strategies proposed,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,858 Views
46 Pages

9 February 2024

Organosilicon polymers (silicones) are of enduring interest both as an established branch of polymer chemistry and as a segment of commercial products. Their unique properties were exploited in a wide range of everyday applications. However, current...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,262 Views
31 Pages

Smart Triboelectric Nanogenerators Based on Stimulus-Response Materials: From Intelligent Applications to Self-Powered Systems

  • Xueqing Wang,
  • Qinghao Qin,
  • Yin Lu,
  • Yajun Mi,
  • Jiajing Meng,
  • Zequan Zhao,
  • Han Wu,
  • Xia Cao and
  • Ning Wang

8 April 2023

Smart responsive materials can react to external stimuli via a reversible mechanism and can be directly combined with a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) to deliver various intelligent applications, such as sensors, actuators, robots, artificial mus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,317 Views
14 Pages

22 August 2024

This study introduces the synthesis and detailed characterization of a novel thermochromic material capable of reversible alterations in its thermotropic transmittance. Through an emulsion polymerization process, this newly developed material is comp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,656 Views
23 Pages

Macrocycles play a crucial role in supramolecular chemistry and the family of macrocyclic arenes represents one of the most important types of hosts. Among them, calixarenes, resorcinarenes and pillararenes are the most commonly encountered macrocycl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,379 Views
11 Pages

Implementation of Smart Materials for Actuation of Traditional Valve Technology for Hybrid Energy Systems

  • Saqlain Zaman,
  • Alba Leyva,
  • Md Sahid Hassan,
  • Ariztbe Valladolid,
  • Nicolas E. Herrera,
  • Sofia Gabriela Gomez,
  • Md Shahjahan Mahmud,
  • David Tucker,
  • Comas Haynes and
  • Yirong Lin

20 March 2023

The ever-changing nature of the power industry will require the implementation of hybrid energy systems. Integration of tightly coupled components in hybrids often involves the diversion of exhaust gas flow. An innovative smart material actuation tec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,985 Views
43 Pages

Creating meaningful interactions using smart textiles involves both a comprehensive understanding of relevant materials and technologies (M&T) and how users engage with this type of interface. Despite its relevance to design research, user experi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,116 Views
32 Pages

Recent Advancements in Smart Hydrogel-Based Materials in Cartilage Tissue Engineering

  • Jakob Naranđa,
  • Matej Bračič,
  • Uroš Maver and
  • Teodor Trojner

31 May 2025

Cartilage tissue engineering (CTE) is an advancing field focused on developing biomimetic scaffolds to overcome cartilage’s inherently limited self-repair capacity. Smart hydrogels (SHs) have gained prominence among the various scaffold materia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,905 Views
21 Pages

Smart Thermomechanochemical Composite Materials Driven by Different Forms of Electromagnetic Radiation

  • Kevin Riberi,
  • Silvestre Bongiovanni Abel,
  • María V. Martinez,
  • María A. Molina,
  • Claudia R. Rivarola,
  • Diego F. Acevedo,
  • Rebeca Rivero,
  • Emma Antonia Cuello,
  • Romina Gramaglia and
  • Cesar A. Barbero

Photo-thermo-mechanochemical (P-T-MCh) nanocomposites provide a mechanical and/or chemical output (MCh) in response to a photonic (P) input, with the thermal (T) flux being the coupling factor. The nanocomposite combines a photon absorbing nanomateri...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,589 Views
17 Pages

13 May 2024

There is an issue in the building stock, especially in Europe, concerning energy efficiency and climate change adaptation. Due to insufficient thermal insulation and passive solutions, the majority of the existing buildings are not only ill-prepared...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,450 Views
25 Pages

Smart Design Aided by Mathematical Approaches: Adaptive Manufacturing, Sustainability, and Biomimetic Materials

  • Antreas Kantaros,
  • Theodore Ganetsos,
  • Evangelos Pallis and
  • Michail Papoutsidakis

1 September 2025

The increased importance of sustainability imperatives has required a profound reconsideration of the interaction between materials, manufacturing, and design fields. Biomimetic smart materials such as shape-memory polymers, hydrogels, and electro-ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,966 Views
18 Pages

Surface Treatment of Carbon Nanotubes Using Modified Tapioca Starch for Improved Force Detection Consistency in Smart Cementitious Materials

  • Leonard Chia,
  • Gina Blazanin,
  • Ying Huang,
  • Umma Salma Rashid,
  • Pan Lu,
  • Senay Simsek and
  • Achintya N. Bezbaruah

17 July 2020

The remarkable mechanical properties and piezo-responses of carbon nanotubes (CNT) makes this group of nanomaterials an ideal candidate for use in smart cementitious materials to monitor forces and the corresponding structural health conditions of ci...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,788 Views
18 Pages

19 February 2025

The sector of 4D printing represents a new frontier in additive manufacturing that allows for a material’s capability to adapt and respond to various stimuli, such as thermal transitions, humidity, and pH levels. The adaptability of such a mate...

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