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Smart Materials covers key scientific and engineering achievements of materials that are capable of actively or adaptively responding to stimuli. We aim to report on the discovery of novel smart material types, on the improvements of existing smart materials and on engineering applications of these that require a multidisciplinary effort.This specialty section considers both theoretical and empirical articles, including laboratory proof-of-concept tests and practical field trials as well. The theoretical articles focus on smart material modeling, smart material characterization, smart material control and numerical analyses; while the empirical articles deal with material preparation and field-dependent material properties.
Applications to engineering systems include smart material development for automotive, robot, aerospace, machine, sensor/actuator networks, energy harvesting, health monitoring and biomimetic devices. Smart material families of shape memory alloys and polymers, piezoelectric materials, piezomagnetic materials, electrorheological fluids, magnetorheological fluids, electrostrictive materials, magnetostrictive materials, ferroelectric materials, electroactive polymers, eletroactive papers, thermoelectric materials, magnetocaloric materials are extensively discussed and this list is dynamically expanding as new functional and controllable materials are explored.
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Smart Materials welcomes submissions of the following article types: Correction, Editorial, Mini Review, Original Research, Perspective and Review.
All manuscripts must be submitted directly to the section Smart Materials, where they are peer-reviewed by the Associate and Review Editors of the specialty section.
Articles published in the section Smart Materials will benefit from the Frontiers impact and tiering system after online publication. Authors of published original research with the highest impact, as judged democratically by the readers, will be invited by the Chief Editor to write a Frontiers Focused Review - a tier-climbing article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The author selection is based on article impact analytics of original research published in all Frontiers specialty journals and sections. Focused Reviews are centered on the original discovery, place it into a broader context, and aim to address the wider community across all of Materials.
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