Tag: smart materials

A new review in the Journal of Materials Science traces 25 years of dielectric elastomer research, from electromechanical fundamentals to ...

Tohoku University researchers equipped azobenzene photoswitches with dipyrrin molecular antennae that harvest visible light and transfer energy to the switch ...

A 2026 review finds that AI-assisted 4D bioprinting may improve material screening, print-path optimization and deformation prediction for craniofacial reconstruction, ...

A 2026 review finds that responsive hydrogels, bioinks and patient-specific scaffolds are promising for general surgery, but realistic wet, contaminated ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä have encoded two layers of information into an artificial molecule, enabling it to self-assemble ...

Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo developed pyrene-modified polyionic complex vesicles whose membrane stiffness can be tuned to program their ...

Researchers combined a radial basis function neural network with sliding mode control to achieve up to 55.8 percent vibration reduction ...

Researchers found that cooling a rubber-stearic acid shape memory polymer with ice water instead of room temperature air dramatically improved ...

A hybrid steel and carbon fiber concrete achieves high strength, dramatically reduced resistivity, and reliable piezoresistive self-sensing under load.

A French research team has shown that carbon black can turn cement paste into a conductive, self-sensing material, and that ...