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Materials and Machine Learning-Related Challenges for Sensors

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Simulation and Design".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 424

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Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Interests: optical fibers; sensors; machine learning; pathology detection; sensing materials; breath analysis

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Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Interests: sensors; breath analysis; electronic noses; optical fibers; machine learning; sensing materials

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Dear Colleagues,

The development of sensors is fundamental to technological, social, and even economic progress. Its importance lies in its ability to improve industrial processes, optimize resources, and monitor and diagnose in the health and environmental area, as well as enabling emerging technologies.

This Special Issue aims to showcase the latest advancements in the field of sensor technology, with a focus on the materials that are driving innovation. We invite researchers, engineers, and industry professionals to submit their original research articles and reviews on topics such as nanomaterials, polymers, composites, and hybrid materials for sensors.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, novel sensing materials and structures, functionalization of materials for specific sensing applications, design and fabrication of sensors using advanced materials, and the integration of sensors into wearable devices and machine learning systems.

Dr. Georgina Beltrán Pérez
Dr. Severino Muñoz Aguirre
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sensors
  • sensing materials
  • machine learning
  • design and fabrication

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An Annular Conductive Membrane-Based Hollow Capacitive Wind Pressure Sensor: Analytical Solution and Numerical Design and Calibration
by Jun-Yi Sun, Zhi-Qiang Yan, He-Hao Feng and Xiao-Ting He
Materials 2025, 18(5), 965; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18050965 - 21 Feb 2025
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A novel hollow capacitive wind pressure sensor is for the first time proposed. The sensing element of the proposed sensor uses a non-parallel plate variable capacitor, whose movable electrode plate uses a transversely uniformly loaded annular conductive membrane with a fixed outer edge [...] Read more.
A novel hollow capacitive wind pressure sensor is for the first time proposed. The sensing element of the proposed sensor uses a non-parallel plate variable capacitor, whose movable electrode plate uses a transversely uniformly loaded annular conductive membrane with a fixed outer edge and a rigid inner edge (acting as the wind pressure sensitive element of the sensor). Due to the unique hollow configuration of the proposed sensor, it can be used alone to detect the pressure exerted by fast-moving air in the atmosphere or by fast-moving air or gas, etc., in pipes, but it also can be used in pairs to measure the flow rate of fast-moving air or gas, etc., in pipes. The analytical solution of the large deflection elastic behavior of the transversely uniformly loaded annular conductive membrane is derived by using a new set of membrane governing equations. The effectiveness of the new analytical solution is analyzed. The new membrane governing equations are compared with the previous ones to show the differences between them. The superiority of the new analytical solution over the existing ones is analyzed. An example is given to demonstrate the numerical design and calibration of the proposed sensor and the effect of changing design parameters on the important capacitance–pressure (Cq) analytical relationship of the proposed sensor is investigated comprehensively. Finally, an experimental verification of the analytical solution derived is carried out. Full article
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