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Metamaterial-Based and Bioinspired Technologies for Sensor Applications

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 45088

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Saman Farhangdoust

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Structures and Composites Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Interests: metamaterial; structural health monitoring (SHM); multifunctional compostes; smart structures
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Dr. Sourav Banerjee

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Interests: smart structure/energy harvesting; computational NDE/SHM; material state awareness; mechatronics/robotics; biomimetic and metamaterials
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Dr. Sadegh Mehdi Aghaei

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Reality Labs at Meta, Redmond, WA USA
Interests: thin film; 2D materials; gas sensor; semiconductor; DFT
Dr. Mohammadhossein Dabaghi

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Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8N 4A6, Canada
Interests: medical micro- and nano systems; tissue engineering; microfluidics; organ-on-a-chip devices, microfabricated artificial organs; microfluidic artificial lungs and kidneys; biosensors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, health monitoring systems using wired, wireless, or self-powered sensor technologies have been developed to monitor, measure, collect, transfer, and analyze health condition data for different structures ranging from the human body to aircraft. The low stretchability in conventional membranes/subframes limits the overall efficiency and sensitivity of the measurement mechanism for flexible sensors in the health monitoring systems. Using computational and experimental tools, the current limitations have been characterized, and various metamaterial and bioinspired sensors have been explored to address these challenges. More recently, achievements and results from theoretical analysis and numerical simulations have demonstrated that kirigami, origami, auxetic, and different bioinspired patterns have proved to be promising and offered reliable solutions for improving the efficiency of conventional wearable and flexible sensors.

This Special Collection aims to explore recent advances and developments in the field of metamaterials and bioinspired sensing technologies and methods applicable to health monitoring systems, and provides a foundation for the design of a new class of bioinspired and metamaterial-based membranes/substrates that can improve the sensitivity and stretchability of sensors. It is intended to cover recent theoretical and experimental achievements in piezoelectric, electromagnetic, and triboelectric applications as well as other new or combinational concepts. The stretchability and sensitivity of wearable and flexible sensors at varying size scales and for different fabrication contents and characteristics may also be addressed. We invite researchers to submit original research, letters and review articles.

Dr. Saman Farhangdoust
Dr. Sourav Banerjee
Dr. Sadegh Mehdi Aghaei
Dr. Mohammadhossein Dabaghi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

The potential topics for submissions include but are not limited to the following:

  • The modeling and analysis of self-powered metamaterial-based and bioinspired sensors
  • Theoretical/experimental achievements in metamaterials and bioinspired sensors
  • Wearable metamaterials and bioinspired sensors in biomedical and health care
  • Metamaterials and bioinspired sensors for the health monitoring of structures and infrastructures
  • Metamaterial bioinspired sensors in optics and photonics
  • 3D and 4D printing methods in the additive manufacturing of metamaterials and bioinspired sensors
  • Bioinspired and metamaterial applications for micro-/nanoelectromechanical systems
  • Metamaterials and bioinspired metasurface sensors
  • Kirigami, origami, and auxetic designs for metamaterials and bioinspired sensors
  • Metamaterial-based and natureinspired sensors for soft robotics
  • Metamaterial-based and bioinspired applications in electronic skins
  • Phononic Crystals and Acoustic Metamaterials for NDE 4.0
  • Metamaterial-based and bioinspired sensors for IoT-based wireless networks
  • AI algorithms for the design and optimization of metamaterials and bioinspired sensors
  • Broadband and multi-frequency designs for metamaterials and bioinspired sensors
  • Material characterization of metamaterials and bioinspired sensors
  • Metamaterial-based and bioinspired sensors for gas sensing applications
  • Multi-stable mechanisms for metamaterial-based and bioinspired sensors
  • Electromagnetic, piezoelectric, and triboelectric metamaterials and bioinspired sensors
  • Metamaterial-based and bioinspired patterns for microfluidic sensors
  • The application of metamaterial-based and bioinspired sensors in sustainable systems and energy storage
  • The application of metamaterial-based and bioinspired sensors in microfluidics and organ-on-a-chip devices.

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Green Phosphorene as a Promising Biosensor for Detection of Furan and p-Xylene as Biomarkers of Disease: A DFT Study
by Aref Aasi, Erfan Aasi, Sadegh Mehdi Aghaei and Balaji Panchapakesan
Sensors 2022, 22(9), 3178; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22093178 - 21 Apr 2022
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In this work, Green Phosphorene (GP) monolayers are studied as an electronic sensing element for detecting prostate cancer biomarkers from human urine. The adsorption of furan, C8H10 (p-xylene), and H2O on pristine GP and S- and Si-doped GP [...] Read more.
In this work, Green Phosphorene (GP) monolayers are studied as an electronic sensing element for detecting prostate cancer biomarkers from human urine. The adsorption of furan, C8H10 (p-xylene), and H2O on pristine GP and S- and Si-doped GP are investigated using the density functional theory (DFT) calculation. Furan and C8H10 molecules have been considered as important biomarkers of prostate cancer patients. First-principles DFT calculations are applied, and the results divulged that pristine GP could be a promising candidate for furan and C8H10 detection. It is manifested that furan and C8H10 are physisorbed on the S-, and Si-doped GP with small adsorption energy and negligible charge transfer. However, the calculations disclose that furan and C8H10 are chemically adsorbed on the pristine GP with adsorption energy of −0.73, and −1.46 eV, respectively. Moreover, we observe that a large charge is transferred from furan to the pristine GP with amount of −0.106 e. Additionally, pristine GP shows short recovery time of 1.81 s at room temperature under the visible light, which make it a reusable sensor device. Overall, our findings propose that the pristine GP sensor is a remarkable candidate for sensing of furan and other biomarkers of prostate cancer in the urine of patients. Full article
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MetaMembranes for the Sensitivity Enhancement of Wearable Piezoelectric MetaSensors
by Saman Farhangdoust, Gary Georgeson and Jeong-Beom Ihn
Sensors 2022, 22(5), 1909; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22051909 - 1 Mar 2022
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The low stretchability of plain membranes restricts the sensitivity of conventional diaphragm-based pressure and inflatable piezoelectric sensors. Using theoretical and computational tools, we characterized current limitations and explored metamaterial-inspired membranes (MetaMems) to resolve these issues. This paper develops two MetaMem pressure sensors (MPSs) [...] Read more.
The low stretchability of plain membranes restricts the sensitivity of conventional diaphragm-based pressure and inflatable piezoelectric sensors. Using theoretical and computational tools, we characterized current limitations and explored metamaterial-inspired membranes (MetaMems) to resolve these issues. This paper develops two MetaMem pressure sensors (MPSs) to enrich the sensitivity and stretchability of the conventional sensors. Two auxetic hexagonal and kirigami honeycombs are proposed to create a negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) in the MetaMems which enables them to expand the piezo-element of sensors in both longitudinal and transverse directions much better, and consequently provides the MPSs’ diaphragm a higher capability for flexural deformation. Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and polycarbonate (PC) are considered as the preferable materials for the piezo-element and MetaMem, respectively. A finite element analysis was conducted to investigate the stretchability behavior of the MetaMems and study its effect on the PVDF’s polarization and sensor sensitivity. The results obtained from theoretical analysis and numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed MetaMems enhance the sensitivity of pressure sensors up to 3.8 times more than an equivalent conventional sensor with a plain membrane. This paper introduces a new class of flexible MetaMems to advance wearable piezoelectric metasensor technologies. Full article
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Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Sensors: Physics, Materials, and Applications
by Debdyuti Mandal and Sourav Banerjee
Sensors 2022, 22(3), 820; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22030820 - 21 Jan 2022
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Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are the guided waves that propagate along the top surface of a material with wave vectors orthogonal to the normal direction to the surface. Based on these waves, SAW sensors are conceptualized by employing piezoelectric crystals where the guided [...] Read more.
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are the guided waves that propagate along the top surface of a material with wave vectors orthogonal to the normal direction to the surface. Based on these waves, SAW sensors are conceptualized by employing piezoelectric crystals where the guided elastodynamic waves are generated through an electromechanical coupling. Electromechanical coupling in both active and passive modes is achieved by integrating interdigitated electrode transducers (IDT) with the piezoelectric crystals. Innovative meta-designs of the periodic IDTs define the functionality and application of SAW sensors. This review article presents the physics of guided surface acoustic waves and the piezoelectric materials used for designing SAW sensors. Then, how the piezoelectric materials and cuts could alter the functionality of the sensors is explained. The article summarizes a few key configurations of the electrodes and respective guidelines for generating different guided wave patterns such that new applications can be foreseen. Finally, the article explores the applications of SAW sensors and their progress in the fields of biomedical, microfluidics, chemical, and mechano-biological applications along with their crucial roles and potential plans for improvements in the long-term future in the field of science and technology. Full article
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