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This issue reports the latest progress in the fields of Electroactive Polymers (EAP) and biomimetics. The recent years ’ growth of the field of EAP has been quite well reflected in the number of papers that were submitted for presentation at the 2014 SPIE EAPAD Conference that was held on March 10, 2014 in San Diego as part of the Smart Structures Symposium. It is pleasing to see that it reached a record of 139 papers. Another significant accomplishment in the field of EAP is the University of Texas at Dallas’s developed Carbon