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Smart material
About: Smart material is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3704 publications have been published within this topic receiving 74280 citations. The topic is also known as: intelligent material & responsive material.
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TL;DR: In this article, a review of 4D printing of smart systems and their applications in sensors, actuators and biomedical devices were reviewed to provide a deeper understanding of the current development and the future outlook.
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TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review of smart electrospun fibers for textile applications is presented, where the definition of smart fibers and the differences between interactive fibers and passive interactive fibers are briefly introduced.
100 citations
TL;DR: Stimuli-responsive nanofluidic systems in room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) that can withstand high temperatures up to 200 °C, in which conventional water-based smart materials and nanodevices are invalid.
Abstract: Stimuli-responsive nanofluidic systems in room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). The nanofluidic device can withstand high temperatures up to 200 °C, in which conventional water-based smart materials and nanodevices are invalid. The smart nanopores can be "irreversibly" turned off above the transition temperature of ca. 120-150 °C, actuated by the conformational change of the chemically-modified polymer brushes.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the most important experimental results on the synthesis of graphene material, its emerging properties with reference to its smart applications, and discuss the possibility to successfully integrate graphene directly into device, enabling thereby the realization of a wide range of applications, including actuation, photovoltaic, thermoelectricity, shape memory, self-healing, electrorheology and space missions.
Abstract: Innovative breakthroughs in fundamental research and industrial applications of graphene material have made its mass and low-cost production a necessary step toward its real world applications. This one-atom thick crystal of carbon, gathers a set of unique physico-chemical properties, ranging from its extreme mechanical behavior to its exceptional electrical and thermal conductivities, which are making graphene as a serious alternative to replace many conventional materials for various applications. In this review paper, we highlight the most important experimental results on the synthesis of graphene material, its emerging properties with reference to its smart applications. We discuss the possibility to successfully integrating graphene directly into device, enabling thereby the realization of a wide range of applications, including actuation, photovoltaic, thermoelectricity, shape memory, self-healing, electrorheology and space missions. The future outlook of graphene is also considered and discussed.
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TL;DR: The field of smart materials and structures was surveyed in a variety of ways including via the internet and by direct contact in this article, and a formal definition of the field was proposed.
Abstract: There has been considerable discussion in the technical community on a number of questions concerned with smart materials and structures, such as what they are, whether smart materials can be considered a subset of smart structures, whether a smart structure and an intelligent structure are the same thing, etc. This discussion is both fueled and confused by the technical community due to the truly multidisciplinary nature of this new field. Smart materials and structures research involves so many technically diverse fields that it is quite common for one field to completely misunderstand the terminology and start of the art in other fields. In order to ascertain whether a consensus is emerging on a number of questions, the technical community was surveyed in a variety of ways including via the internet and by direct contact. The purpose of this survey was to better define the smart materials and structures field, its current status and its potential benefits. Results of the survey are presented and discussed. Finally, a formal definition of the field of smart materials and structures is proposed.
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