Magnetoactive Materials
Materials that respond to magnetic fields with shape or property change.
FUTURE OF 4D PRINTING IN SOFT ROBOTICS AND INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION
A 2015–2025 review synthesizes how 4D printing with stimulus-responsive materials enables programmable, adaptive soft robotics and intelligent automation, while highlighting remaining barriers to translation.
Transformation front kinetics in deformable ferromagnets
A continuum magneto-mechanical framework is developed to derive thermodynamic driving forces and efficiently model transformation-front kinetics in deformable ferromagnets and magnetic shape-memory alloys.
Development and characterization of magnetite reinforced nanocomposites for electromagnetic responsiveness and smart material applications
This study explores magnetite reinforced nanocomposites for enhanced electromagnetic responsiveness in smart material applications.
Enabling Rapid Filler‐Free Magnetic Actuation of Shape Memory Polymer Composites Using Woven Carbon Fabrics as Eddy Current Susceptor
A filler-free magnetic induction heating strategy uses conductive woven carbon fabrics in shape memory polymer composites, with laminate lay-up tuned to achieve full shape recovery in 30 s.
Highly stretchable, magnetic responsive, shape memory polymer composites via digital light processing 3D printing: Synthesis, characterization and applications
A DLP 3D-printed, highly stretchable polymer composite is reported to be magnetic responsive and shape-memory based, with synthesis, characterization, and applications mentioned in the title.
Material Behavior of Magnetoresponsive Polymer Composites in Extrusion-Based Direct Writing
This study explores how magnetic fields can enhance the rheological properties of polymer composites in additive manufacturing.
On Nonlinear Dynamics Of A Nonideal Magnetic System With Shape Memory Alloy To Energy Harvesting Using Uncertainty Exponent And Entropy Of Basin Of Attractions Approaches
A nonlinear, non-ideal magnetic energy-harvesting model incorporating a shape memory spring is analyzed via basin-of-attraction fractality and uncertainty/entropy measures to map chaotic/periodic regimes and power-output extremes.
Stabilization of Martensite and Austenite Phases and Realization of Two-way Martensitic Transition in Co-Ni-Ga Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy Nanoparticles
Co-Ni-Ga ferromagnetic shape memory alloy nanoparticles exhibit a reversible martensite–austenite transition with tunable magnetic properties, suggesting use in nanoactuators across temperatures.
Printing Mosaics of Magnetically Programmed Liquid Crystal Directors for Reversibly Morphing Soft Matter
A DLP printing system with a reorientable magnetic field enables magnetically programmed alignment in liquid crystal elastomers, producing reversibly morphing structures with >30% thermal actuation.
Boundary curvature guided shape-programming kirigami sheets
By programming curvature along kirigami cut boundaries (not complex cut patterns), the authors enable simpler forward and inverse design of dynamic 3D shape morphing, including magnetic actuation for soft-robot concepts.
Magnetic Shape Memory Polymers with Integrated Multifunctional Shape Manipulations
A magnetic shape-memory polymer composite enables reprogrammable, untethered, fast, reversible shape change with locking and sequential actuation, enabling grippers, logic, and reconfigurable antennas.