Traditionally, food packaging is used for improving food quality and providing consumers
with descriptions of products. A new generation of intelligent (“smart”) packaging materials is …

Smart fibers are considered as promising materials for the fabrication of wearable electronic
skins owing to their features such as superior flexibility, light weight, high specific area, and …

Robust ionic sensing materials that are both fatigue-resistant and self-healable like human
skin are essential for soft electronics and robotics with extended service life. However, most …

Inspired by the self‐healing function of living organisms, self‐healing materials have been
developed in recent decades to very high standards. As a new direction, self‐healing fibrous …

Intrinsic self-healing polymeric materials are substances that relieve external stress and
restore their original mechanical properties after extreme damage via dynamic covalent …

Gelatin/agar-based smart and functional freshness indicator films were fabricated using blue
anthocyanin and zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO). The anthocyanin was extracted from …

Flexible electronics have attracted considerable attention in the past two decades due to
their distinctive features and numerous potential applications in electronic skins, human …

Self-repairable materials strive to emulate curable and resilient biological tissue; however,
their performance is currently insufficient for commercialization purposes because mending …

The demand for face masks is increasing exponentially due to the coronavirus pandemic
and issues associated with airborne particulate matter (PM). However, both conventional …

Self-indicating polymers have emerged as a promising class of smart materials that possess
the unique ability to undergo detectable variations in their physical or chemical properties in …