Nowadays, materials scientific data come from lab experiments, simulations, individual archives, enterprise and internet in all scales and formats. The data flood has outpaced our capability to process, manage, analyze, and provide intelligent services. Extracting valuable information from the huge data ocean is necessary for improving the quality of domain services. The most acute information ...

Material scientists predict a prominent role in the future for self-repairing and intelligent materials. Throughout the last few years, this concept has found growing interest as a result of the rise of a new class of polymers. These so-called shape-memory polymers by far surpass well-known metallic shape-memory alloys in their shape-memory properties. As a consequence of the relatively easy ma...

Continuous exposure to low doses of myco- and phyco-toxins poses severe risks to human health. Contemporary analytical methods have the sensitivity required for contamination detection and quantification, but direct application of these methods on real samples can be rarely performed because of matrix complexity. Thus, selective analytical methods, relying on intelligent functional materials ar...

New trends in beverage packaging are focusing on the structure modification of packaging materials and the development of new active and/or intelligent systems, which can interact with the product or its environment, improving the conservation of beverages, such as wine, juice or beer, customer acceptability, and food security. In this paper, the main nutritional and organoleptic degradation pr...

This article reviews the recent progress of fullerene-tethered oligothiophenes as advanced molecular electronics materials. By covalent linkage with fullerenes, oligothiophenes can be modified into intelligent functional materials. In addition to the characteristics of oligothiophenes as well as fullerenes, these linkage systems show intriguing physical properties such as photoinduced electron ...

Prior research in multimedia learning has demonstrated that materials that present visual and verbal information in an integrated, rather than split-source, format can support successful learning outcomes. These benefits often are attributed to reductions in cognitive load during learning; however, linking visual and verbal sources in materials also may support cognitive processes that coordina...

Hazardous materials transport network optimisation is the basis of ensuring the safety of hazardous materials transport. Considering the uncertainty of much basic information in hazardous materials transport system, this paper proposes the multi-objective chance-constrained programming model for hazardous materials transport network under uncertainty optimisation theory framework. Then, the pap...