Advanced Soft Materials in Electronic Sensor and Actuators

Dear Colleagues,

There are many distinguished achievements in novel flexible electronics and their applications in daily life, from consumer and mobile appliances to biomedical systems, sports, and healthcare. All conceivable classes of materials with a wide range of mechanical, physical, and chemical properties are employed, from liquids and gels to organic and inorganic solids. Due to market requirement growth, research on flexible electronics has been increasing during the past few years. Smart sensors, wearable devices, neuromorphic electronics for computing, neuroprosthetics, actuators, and MEMS devices are the emerging sections of flexible electronics that have recently seen significant progress. 

 Various material systems range from compliant conductors to semiconductors to dielectrics, all of which play a vital and cohesive role in developing next-generation electronic devices particularly related to computing systems. These new materials and new devices pave the way for a new generation of electronics that will change the way we see and interact with our devices for decades to come. This Special Issue covers current challenges, prospective and recent advances in the development of new materials and emergent technologies, as well as the engineering of well-characterized materials for the repurposing in applications of flexible and stretchable electronics. 

We invite scientists working in polymeric materials, chemistry, physics, electronics, medicine, and engineering to contribute to this Special Issue through work related to any electronic sensors and actuators based on soft materials. Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Phase change materials
• Shape memory alloys
• Piezoelectric polymers
• Sensor skin
• Soft robots
• Neuromorphic electronics
• Wearable devices
• Neuroprosthetics
• Sensor devices for IoT applications
• MEMS devices
• Smart materials
• Energy harvesting
• Strain sensors
• Electronic thermal sensors
• Electrochemical actuation
• Energy storage
• Health monitoring

Dr. Fatemeh Mokhtari
Dr. Serena Danti
Dr. Bahareh Azimi
Dr. Samaneh Hashemikia
Guest Editors

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