Smart Materials and Structures™ (SMS) is a multi-disciplinary engineering journal that publishes findings from a series of subdisciplines that together make up the broad field of smart materials research, including structural and system-level aspects, from design and control to physical intelligence.

A smart material is defined as any material that undergoes changes to its properties or behaviour as the result of some stimuli. A smart structure/system is one judiciously structured in order to utilise the smart properties of its constituent parts, including architected structures. The scope of SMS extends from the nano to macro regimes and is divided into the following subdisciplines:

Smart Materials Development and Application, including but not limited to;
Shape memory alloys and polymers
Sensing and actuating smart materials and their application across multiple environments
Electro and magnetorheological materials
Piezoelectric materials
Ferroelectric and multiferroics
Functional and multifunctional materials and systems
3D and 4D printed smart materials
Smart materials for adaptive control or structural health monitoring
Self-Healing materials
Machine Learning for novel smart materials
Physical intelligence
Smart Materials for Energy applications, including;
Energy harvesting materials
Photovoltaic materials
Energy storage systems (including battery and capacitor devices)
Smart grid technologies
Soft Smart Materials
Smart materials for soft robotics
Soft intelligent systems
Electroactive polymers (dielectric, ionic, etc.)
Liquid crystal elastomers
Hydrogels
Smart Biomaterials
Biomimetic and bioinspired materials
Biocomposite materials
Engineered living systems
Functional polymer materials
Artificial muscle systems
Smart materials for medical devices
Auxetics and Metamaterials including but not limited to,
Auxetic materials and structures
Elastic and acoustic metamaterials
Mechanical metamaterials and metastructures
Phononic structures
Programmable and tunable metamaterials
Articles that present theoretical findings of novel smart materials as well as structures and systems, across any of these subdisciplines, will also be considered.

SMS has an Editorial Board who are specialists in a multitude of areas, ensuring that reviews are fast, fair and performed by experts in all sub-disciplines of smart materials, systems and structures.