Potassium ion (K) is the most abundant intracellular metal ion in the body and plays an important role in biological activities. Fabrication of K recognition and response smart materials is of both scientific and technological interests for various applications. Recently, our group have developed a series kinds of K-recognizable responsive smart materials based on 15-crown-5 as K recognizing re...

Based on the continuous increase in functionality of interactive products, tangible user interfaces are coming up. We will address one important design challenge: how to design the feedback of the internal state of the interactive product in a natural way. Although already several solutions are possible, we will introduce a new approach via smart materials. With smart materials the feedback of ...

INTRODUCTION Each of us reacts to the world around and within us by sensing and actuating. When our hand is in contact with a hot object, we sense the heat, our brain sends a command, and our arm muscles actuate our hand away from the object. Similarly, because of internal sensing, we will tend to favor the burned hand until it has healed. As technology progresses, it becomes reasonable to ask,...

EDITORIAL article Front. Mater., 06 February 2023Sec. Smart Materials Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2023.1150799

A multiphysics micromechanics model is developed to predict the effective properties as well as the local fields of periodic smart materials responsive to fully coupled electric, magnetic, thermal and mechanical fields. This work is based on the framework of the variational asymptotic method for unit cell homogenization (VAMUCH), a recently developed micromechanics modeling scheme. To treat the...