Smart Materials and Structures

Smart Materials and Structures™ (SMS) is a multi-disciplinary engineering journal that publishes findings from a series of subdisciplines that together make up the broad field of smart materials research, including structural and system-level aspects, from design and control to physical intelligence. A smart material is defined as any material that undergoes changes to its properties or behaviour as the result of some stimuli. A smart structure/system is one judiciously structured in order to utilise the smart properties of its constituent parts, including architected structures. The scope of SMS extends from the nano to macro regimes and is divided into the following subdisciplines: Smart Materials Development and Application, including but not limited to; Shape memory alloys and polymers Sensing and actuating smart materials and their application across multiple environments Electro and magnetorheological materials Piezoelectric materials Ferroelectric and multiferroics Functional and multifunctional materials and systems 3D and 4D printed smart materials Smart materials for adaptive control or structural health monitoring Self-Healing materials Machine Learning for novel smart materials Physical intelligence Smart Materials for Energy applications, including; Energy harvesting materials Photovoltaic materials Energy storage systems (including battery and capacitor devices) Smart grid technologies Soft Smart Materials Smart materials for soft robotics Soft intelligent systems Electroactive polymers (dielectric, ionic, etc.) Liquid crystal elastomers Hydrogels Smart Biomaterials Biomimetic and bioinspired materials Biocomposite materials Engineered living systems Functional polymer materials Artificial muscle systems Smart materials for medical devices Auxetics and Metamaterials including but not limited to, Auxetic materials and structures Elastic and acoustic metamaterials Mechanical metamaterials and metastructures Phononic structures Programmable and tunable metamaterials Articles that present theoretical findings of novel smart materials as well as structures and systems, across any of these subdisciplines, will also be considered. SMS has an Editorial Board who are specialists in a multitude of areas, ensuring that reviews are fast, fair and performed by experts in all sub-disciplines of smart materials, systems and structures.