Fluidic Type Strain/Pressure Sensors for Wearable Electronics and Robotics Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2023) | Viewed by 492
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, soft sensors have gained enormous attention due to their myriad applications, such as wearable electronics, personal health monitoring, medical devices, prostheses, smart clothes, and soft robotics. These devices are preferred owing to their characteristics, such as high compliance, long lifetime, low weight, and low cost. Many new sensing techniques, such as optically or electrical responsive active materials, are being intensively researched to improve the sensor performance parameters, such as response-recovery time, hysteresis, gauge factor, in addition to reducing cost, making fabrication process easy, and making the design process compatible with mass production. Although the soft material encapsulated conductive liquid-based strain sensors make use of conductive liquids and have recently been used in wearable and soft robotics owing to their reduced cost, extended lifetime, high sensitivities, and simple designing process.
This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the field of liquid type/fluidic type strain and pressure sensors and their applications in diverse areas, such as health monitoring, robotics, and biocompatible wearable monitoring. This Special Issue is aimed at providing selected contributions on advances in the conformal and long-life channel fabrication, synthesis of conductive liquids, characterization, and applications of the robust sensing devices with regard to wearable monitoring, soft robotics, and relevant situations. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Micro/nano channel fabrication for leakage-free sensing;
- Synthesis of conductive liquids for pressure and strain sensing;
- Performance optimization through device's structure;
- Additive manufacturing for fluidic sensors;
- Future perspective of fluidic strain/pressure sensors;
- Biocompatible liquid metals;
- Role of fluidic strain/pressure sensors for wearable and soft robotics applications.
Dr. Afaque Manzoor Soomro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- micro-channel
- fluidic sensors
- additive printing
- strain sensors
- pressure sensors
- soft robotics
- wearable robotic
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