Emerging Materials and Technologies for Printed Sensors and Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2020) | Viewed by 5710
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Inkjet-printing; Emerging materials for inkjet- and 3D-printing: siloxanes, nanotubes, graphene, etc.; Sensor systems; Tactile sensing; Robotics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Three-dimensional object printing technologies, i.e., 3D-printing, or additive manufacturing in general, are an invention of the last century, but have seen increasing interest and use especially in recent research and industrial applications. Reasons are their versatility, ease-of-use and cost effectiveness compared to standard processes. They are by now ideally suited for rapid-prototyping and small series production. Fields which are of special importance in a modern world, which constantly seeks improvement, the more through individualized designs. 3D-printing enables the development and ultra-fast fabrication of individualized, light-weight, optimized components for a variety of application areas such as: aerospace, automobile, mobile devices, industrial components, robotics and medicine.
Layer-printing technologies, such as inkjet-, aerosol jet, or electrohydrodynamic (EHD) printing, are sometimes also referred to as 2.5D-printing, since, more often, they are used to fabricate functional layers on various types of substrates. While the functional layers may be conductive or made of dedicate functional materials to achieve advanced sensory properties, the substrates can be conformable polymers (especially PDMS and derivates), but also foils, papers or 3D-printed parts of complex shapes. Less often, but the more a topic of vivid research, inkjet-printing has been used to fabricate also all integrated (e.g. including front-end, wiring, read-out circuitry, signal processing and transmission), often conformable, sensor systems.
The goal of this Special Issue is to invite high-quality, state-of-the-art research papers that deal with challenging issues, novel applications and methods for printed sensors and sensor system. We solicit original papers of unpublished and completed research that are not currently under review by any other conference/magazine/journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel 3D- and inkjet-printed sensor designs and system concepts
- Emerging materials, methods and technologies for printed sensors and systems
- Simulation and modelling of printed sensors and systems
- Hybrid printed systems and systems on foil and flexible substrates
- Recent and future applications of printed sensors in industry and research
- Soft matter sensor systems and applications
Dr. Lisa-Marie Faller
Prof. Hubert Zangl
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Printed sensors and systems
- Hybrid systems
- Sensor and system concepts
- Emerging materials and methods for printed sensors
- Novel applications for printed sensors
- Novel fabrication technologies and strategies for printed sensors and systems
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