Active Materials for Medical Applications

<p>This Special Issue was proposed by and for engineers physicists medical doctors researchers and scientists. We intend to analyze and discuss different topics on special materials for medical applications. There is great potential in the application of active or smart materials (metallic polymer or ceramic) for the progression of applications in the medical domain of MEMS actuators sensors or functional systems. Active or smart materials have the ability to respond to different physical or chemical stimuli in a specific repeatable mode. The actual activity in the domain however presents problems connected to obtaining processing characterizing modeling and simulating or prototyping technologies. This Special Issue focuses on the most recent advances in obtaining and thermal and mechanical processing active materials used in the medical field with enhanced performances.</p>