Recent Advances in Flexible Sensors

Dear Colleagues,

Sensors can provide the necessary information about machines and environments. Recent advances in mechanics and materials provide routes to flexible sensors that can detect large deformations and have the ability to be stretched, compressed, or twisted. Flexible sensors show great potential in healthcare, including rehabilitation robots, exercise monitoring, and auxiliary instrument.

Sensitivity and range are two key performance indexes of flexible sensors. In order to improve the performance, researchers have made efforts ranging from the selection of materials to structure design, preparation process selection and other aspects. However, there are still high-cost, complex processes which are difficult to scale up to mass production, among other problems.

Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, communications, and review articles that focus on the latest results and findings in flexible sensors, stretchable conductors, micro/nanomanipulation technologies, etc.

Dr. Zhilai Lu
Dr. Cunman Liang
Dr. Zehua Hu
Dr. Lingtao Weng
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Micromachines is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2100 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Dr. Zhilai Lu
Dr. Cunman Liang
Dr. Zehua Hu
Dr. Lingtao Weng
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Micromachines is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2100 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.