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Flexible and Wearable Sensors, 4th Edition
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Flexible and Wearable Sensors, 4th Edition

A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 132

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Dr. Libo Gao

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Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
Interests: flexible sensor; flexible and wearable electronics; 3D printing
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Prof. Dr. Zhuoqing Yang

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National Key Laboratory of Micro/Nano Fabrication Technology, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: flexible electronics; MEMS; flexible sensor
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Prof. Dr. Gaofeng Zheng

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Department of Instrumental and Electrical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
Interests: electrostatic spinning-based flexible microsystems integration; flexible electronics
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Dr. Haiyan Zhang

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Lanzhou Institute of Physics, China Academy of Space Technology, Lanzhou 730000, China
Interests: flexible functional film; flexible electronics; 3D printing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Due to their favorable flexibility and adaptability, flexible and wearable electronics have exhibited enormous potential in broad applications in human–machine interaction, robotics, and healthcare monitoring. Consequently, they have become one of the most attractive and rapidly growing areas of novel interdisciplinary research. As the core components of flexible electronics, the excellent flexibility sensing performance of flexible and wearable sensors are important in guaranteeing the efficacy of flexible wearable electronics. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on the following:

(1) Novel structural designs, material fabrication, signal processing, and modeling of flexible and wearable sensors based on all kinds of mechanisms;

(2) MEMS technique processes in wearable and flexible sensors and simulation processes in theoretical modeling;

(3) Multiple application scenarios in multivariable flexible and wearable sensor systems.

Dr. Libo Gao
Prof. Dr. Zhuoqing Yang
Prof. Dr. Gaofeng Zheng
Dr. Haiyan Zhang
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Keywords

  • flexible sensors
  • electronic skin
  • flexible electronics
  • wearable electronics
  • MEMS wearable applications

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Dual-Mode Flexible Pressure Sensor Based on Ionic Electronic and Piezoelectric Coupling Mechanism Enables Dynamic and Static Full-Domain Stress Response
by Yue Ouyang, Shunqiang Huang, Zekai Huang, Shengyu Wu, Xin Wang, Sheng Chen, Haiyan Zhang, Zhuoqing Yang, Mengran Liu and Libo Gao
Micromachines 2025, 16(9), 1018; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi16091018 - 3 Sep 2025
Abstract
Flexible pressure sensors have shown promise applications in scenarios such as robotic tactile sensing due to their excellent sensitivity and linearity. However, the realization of flexible pressure sensors with both static and dynamic response capabilities still face significant challenges due to the properties [...] Read more.
Flexible pressure sensors have shown promise applications in scenarios such as robotic tactile sensing due to their excellent sensitivity and linearity. However, the realization of flexible pressure sensors with both static and dynamic response capabilities still face significant challenges due to the properties of the sensing materials themselves. In this study, we propose a flexible pressure sensor that integrates piezoelectric and ionic capacitance mechanisms for full-domain response detection of dynamic and static forces: a “sandwich” sensing structure is constructed by printing a mixture of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) onto the surface of the upper and lower electrodes, and sandwiching a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) thin film between the electrodes. The device exhibits a sensitivity of 0.13 kPa−1 in the pressure range of 0–150 kPa. The sensor has a rapid dynamic response (response time 19 ms/12 ms) with a sensitivity of 0.49 mV kPa−1 based on the piezoelectric mechanism and a linearity of 0.9981 based on the ionic capacitance mechanism. The device maintains good response stability under the ball impact test, further validating its potential application in static/dynamic composite force monitoring scenarios. Full article
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