25 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Bouchaib Zazoum, Khalid Mujasam Batoo, Muhammad Azhar Ali Khan, Jesús Fontecha + 1 more
'Jesús Fontecha' 'Iván González'] Flexible sensors are low cost, wearable, and lightweight, as well as having a simple structure as per the requirements of engineering applications. Furthermore, for many potential applications, such as human health monitoring, robotics, wearable electronics, and artificial…
Yunlei Yin, Cheng Guo, Hong Li, Hongying Yang + 3 more
'Dongyi Chen' 'Youfan Hu'] In modern society, technology associated with smart sensors made from flexible materials is rapidly evolving. As a core component in the field of wearable smart devices (or ‘smart wearables’), flexible sensors have the advantages of excellent flexibility, ductility, free folding properties…
Sen Wang, Haorui Zhai, Qiang Zhang, Xueling Hu + 7 more
'Xin Xiong' 'Ruhong Ma' 'Jianlei Wang' 'Ying Chang' 'Lixin Wu' 'Alexander Kromka'] Flexible sensors are revolutionizing our lives as a key component of intelligent wearables. Their pliability, stretchability, and diverse designs enable foldable and portable devices while enhancing comfort and convenience. Advances in…
Xiaodong Zhou, Hongxin Zang, Yong Guan, Shuangjian Li + 2 more
'Sergei A. Kulinich'] Superhydrophobic flexible strain sensors, which combine superhydrophobic coatings with highly sensitive flexible sensors, significantly enhance sensor performance and expand applications in human motion monitoring. Superhydrophobic coatings provide water repellency, surface self-cleaning…
Chenlong Liang, Cancan Yan, Shoupei Zhai, Yuhang Wang + 5 more
'Wen Wang' 'Yong Pan' 'Aiqun Liu' 'Vamsi K Yadavalli'] In this work, the major methods for implementing flexible sensing technology-flexible surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors-are summarized; the working principles and device characteristics of the flexible SAW sensors are introduced; and the latest achievements of…
Zhong Shen, Juan Yi, Xiaodong Li, Mark Hin Pei Lo + 3 more
'Michael Z. Q. Chen' 'Yong Hu' 'Zheng Wang'] Soft sensors are required to accommodate the flexible and deformable natures of the human body in wearable device applications. They are also suitable for integration with soft robotic devices to monitor the performance status and provide references for feedback control.…
Alex Abramson, Carmel T. Chan, Yasser Khan, Alana Mermin-Bunnell + 7 more
Healthcare professionals and scientists utilize tumor shrinkage as a key metric to establish the efficacy of cancer treatments. However, current measurement tools such as CT scanners and calipers only provide brief snapshots of the dynamic geometric changes occurring in vivo, and they are unable to characterize the…
Jia-Chen Shang
- Developing and validating a novel universal piezoresistive model for flexible strain sensor. - Capturing the conductivity tensor and piezoresistive behavior of anisotropic composites under large deformations. - Presenting a numerical method for predicting electromechanical behavior of flexible strain sensor. -…
Mirza Saquib Sarwar, Ryusuke Ishizaki, Kieran Morton, Claire Preston + 7 more
'Tan Ngoc Nguyen' 'Fan Xu' 'Bertille Dupont' 'Leanna Hogarth' 'Takahide Yoshiike' 'Shahriar Mirabbasi' 'John D. W. Madden'] Soft sensors that can discriminate shear and normal force could help provide machines the fine control desirable for safe and effective physical interactions with people. A capacitive sensor is…
Huize Wang, Charles Otieno Ogolla, Gyanendra Panchal, Marco Hepp + 9 more
Nitrogen-doped carbons (NC) are a class of sustainable materials for selective CO2 adsorption. We introduce a versatile concept to fabricate flexible NC-based sensor architectures for room-temperature sensing of CO2 in a one-step laser conversion of primary coatings cast from abundant precursors. By the unidirectional…
Zhe Zhang, Quan Liu, Hongliang Ma, Ningfeng Ke + 3 more
—In recent years, pressure sensors have been widely used as crucial technology components in industrial, healthcare, consumer electronics, and automotive safety applications. With the development of intelligent technologies, there is a growing demand for pressure sensors with higher sensitivity, smaller size, and wider…
Miriam Filippi, Aiste Balciunaite, Antonia Georgopoulou, Pablo Paniagua + 5 more
Biohybrid robots are emergent soft robots that combine engineered artificial structures and living biosystems to exploit unique characteristics of biological cells and tissues. Skeletal muscle tissue-based bio-actuators can respond to externally applied stimuli, such as electrical fields. However, current bio-actuation…
Sheng Yong, Hassan Hamidi, Daniela Iacopino, Stephen Beeby
Flexible and textile-integrated electrochemical systems offer a convenient, user-friendly and non-invasive platform for continuous biochemical monitoring. In this study, a fully flexible and low-profile electrochemical system was developed by fabricating both the glucose biosensor and a compact potentiostat implemented…
Yasin Cotur, Michael Kasimatis, Matti Kaisti, Selin Olenik + 2 more
We report a highly flexible, stretchable, and mechanically robust low-cost soft composite consisting of silicone polymers and water (or hydrogels). When combined with conventional acoustic transducers, the materials reported enable high performance real-time monitoring of heart and respiratory patterns over layers of…
Christian Harito, Listya Utari, Budi Riza Putra, Brian Yuliarto + 5 more
The development of smart polymer materials is reviewed and illustrated. Important examples of these polymers include conducting polymers, ionic gels, stimulus-response be used polymers, liquid crystalline polymers and piezoelectric materials, which have desirable properties for use in wearable sensors. This review…
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The development of advanced relative humidity (r.h.) sensors holds immense potential for wearable applications where precise monitoring of environmental or physiological conditions is crucial. In this study, we explore the tunability of graphene oxide/reduced graphene oxide/titania nanocrystal (GO/rGO/TNC) hybrid films…
Daniel C. Moyer, Wenpeng Wang, Logan S. Karschner, Loris Fichera + 1 more
'Pratap M. Rao'] Abstract— This letter describes the manufacturing and experimental characterization of novel stretchable strain sensors for continuum robots. The overarching goal of this research is to provide a new solution for the shape sensing of these devices. The sensors are fabricated via direct ink writing, an…
Ellis Capp, Marco Pontin, Peter Walters, Perla Maiolino
Proprioception in Multi-Material 3D Printed Fingers Authors: ['Ellis Capp' 'Marco Pontin' 'Peter Walters' 'Perla Maiolino'] Abstract— Accurate shape sensing, only achievable through distributed proprioception, is a key requirement for closedloop control of soft robots. Low-cost power efficient optoelectronic sensors…
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This study presents the use of laser-driven microbubbles for micro-patterning Ti3C2TX MXenes on flexible polyethylene terephthalate films, yielding conductive micropatterns without the need for pre- or post-processing. Characterization of the electrical properties under varying strain conditions revealed distinct…
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Iontronics can improve soft robotics, like wearable devices and environmental sensors, by replacing rigid electronics with viscoelastic materials that mimic biological tissue. Circuit components, including diodes, transistors, and power sources, have been fabricated with soft materials that utilize ionic current.…
Chinmayee Gowda, John Cavin, Partha Kumbhakar, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary + 1 more
Atomically thin, few-layered membranes of oxides show unique physical and chemical properties compared to their bulk forms. We have exfoliated manganese oxide (Mn3O4) membranes from the naturally occurring mineral Hausmannite and used them to make flexible, high-performance nanogenerators. We observe an enhanced power…
Zeyi Yang, Sheng Ge, Fang Wan, Yujia Liu + 1 more
— Robotic fingers made of soft material and compliant structures usually lead to superior adaptation when interacting with the unstructured physical environment. In this paper, we present an embedded sensing solution using optical fibers for an omni-adaptive soft robotic finger with exceptional adaptation in all…
Atharv Naik, Hong Seok Lee, Jack Herrington, Giandrin Barandun + 3 more
Gas sensors present an alternative to traditional off-package food quality assessment, due to their high sensitivity and fast response without the need of sample pre-treatment. The safe integration of gas sensors into packaging without compromising sensitivity, response rate, and stability, however, remains a…
Mohammed Hassan Ali, Ahmed Tariq Mahmoud, Karim Hisham Abdullah
This study aimed to optimize the inkjet printing process for the fabrication of rGO- based lactate biosensors. The ink used for printing possessed proper fluidic properties, and the droplets were connected on the film by repeated printing process. The ink also contained ethyl cellulose, which reduced the coffee ring…
Selin Olenik, John D. Goodwin, Atharv Naik, Philip Coatsworth + 9 more
The outstanding barrier properties of skin make it difficult to obtain reliable physiological information (especially chemical) without the use of implantable bioelectronic sensing devices to directly access the internal biology. The clinical utility of bioelectronic implants however, hinges on a key geometrical…