Multifunctional Materials, a journal serving an emerging field at the convergence of materials science, physics, chemistry, bioscience, and engineering, recently published its first issue.
The design and manufacture of materials capable of multiple functions - so called 'multifunctional' materials – has emerged as a rapidly growing area in materials science.
It is characterised by multidisciplinary research, and the potential for wide-ranging innovation covering areas such as energy, environmental sustainability, healthcare, aerospace, nanoelectronics, soft robotics and semiconductors.
In the first issue of Multifunctional Materials, Trevor Buckner and Dr Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio from Yale University, USA, review how functional fibres could be used in soft robotics.
The journal is led by two editors-in-chief: Andreas Lendlein, Director of the Institute of Biomaterial Science at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research and Professor for Materials in Life Sciences at Potsdam University, and Richard Trask, Chair in Advanced Materials at the Bristol Composites Institute (ACCIS) and a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Bristol.
The journal aims to cover: the design and manufacture of programmed materials for multifunctionality, morphing and adaptivity; 'Meta-materials' designed and created through current chemistry or synthetic biology; multifunctional materials designed with capabilities of intelligent systems, such as sensing and self-diagnosis; characterisation methods for functions, multiscale modelling and computational materials engineering; and novel applications of functional multi-materials.
Multifunctional Materials is free to read for individual users, universities, and academic research institutes throughout 2018.
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