Dear Colleagues,

Actuators is currently inviting the submission of high-quality articles for a Special Issue in honor of Professor Jaewhan Kim, one of the pioneers of cellulose-based piezoelectric and multifunctional actuators. Dr. Kim is the director of the Creative Research Center for Nanocellulose Future Composites (CRC for NCFC) sponsored by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), which was continued from the former Creative Research Center for Electro Active Paper (EAPap) Actuator. He received his PhD in Engineering Science and Mechanics from The Pennsylvania State University in 1995. Since then, he has worked at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Inha University, Korea, where he now serves as an Inha Fellow Professor.

He has contributed significantly to the smart materials and devices fields, including renewable smart materials, electroactive polymers, power harvesting, soft actuators, biosensors, flexible electronics, nanocellulose multifunctional composites, smart optics, space materials, and smart food packaging. He first discovered cellulose as a smart material that can be used for sensors, actuators, and electronic materials. His scientific career (Scopus) has so far resulted in 340 published papers, an H-index of 56, and more than 12,000 citations. Moreover, he has authored more than 360 international conference papers and more than 40 patents, transferring some of which to companies for promoting industrial development. He continues to supervise many students and researchers and devotes his time to academia as a fellow of The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, and the Institute of Physics.

In honor of Professor Jaehwan Kim’s outstanding scientific contributions, we invite the submission of novel contributions and comprehensive reviews on a particular topic in the fields of stimuli-responsive polymers, functional nanocomposites, smart-material-based actuators, and their promising applications for artificial muscle, soft robotics, energy-harvesting devices and smart optics, etc. We look forward to working with you on this commemorative Special Issue.

Dr. Sungryul Yun
Dr. Hyun Chan Kim
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Actuators is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• smart materials
• stimuli-responsive polymers
• functional nanocomposites
• actuators
• modeling
• control
• soft robotics