Recent Advances in Shape-Memory Materials and Actuators
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuator Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 2303
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soft robotics; smart materials; swarm robots
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Inspired by natural muscles, “artificial muscles” (e.g., shape memory alloy, shape memory polymer, and liquid crystal elastomer) that can “memorize” their original shape and stiffness, and recover from deformation in response to external stimulation have drawn massive attention in the past decades. Such actuators have been widely applied in the field of robotics, bioengineering, and aerospace engineering, where compliance, compactness, or minimum auxiliary power and control electronics are required. However, the bottlenecks like low actuation bandwidth, intermediate actuation strain, and poor energy efficiency can restrict their further applications.
The Special Issue will provide a forum for the latest research activities in the field of shape memory actuators, materials, and their applications to address these challenges. Both review articles and original research papers are solicited in, though not limited to, the following areas:
- Novel design of shape memory actuators;
- New shape memory materials;
- Modeling, control, and sensing of shape memory actuators;
- Novel methods to improve the performance of shape memory actuators and materials;
- Emerging applications of shape memory actuators and materials;
Dr. Xiaonan (Sean) Huang
Dr. Jun Sheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- shape memory actuator
- shape memory materials
- soft robotics
- microrobots
- medical robotics
- bioengineering
- aerospcace engineering
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