Flexible sensors have emerged as critical interfaces for information exchange between soft biological tissues and machines. Here, we present a dual-mode stretchable sensor system capable of synchronous strain and electromyography (EMG) signal detecti...
Humans could sensitively perceive and identify objects through dense mechanoreceptors distributed on the skin of curved fingertips. Inspired by this biological structure, this study presents a general conformal integration method for flexible tactile...
A new pinned photodiode (PPD) CMOS image sensor with reverse biased p-type substrate has been developed and characterized. The sensor uses traditional PPDs with one additional deep implantation step to suppress the parasitic reverse currents, and can...
The significant potential of flexible sensors in various fields such as human health, soft robotics, human–machine interaction, and electronic skin has garnered considerable attention. Capacitive pressure sensor is popular given their mechanica...
Soft electroactive materials including dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gels have recently been extensively investigated. These smart materials can effectively respond to an electric field, resulting in shape deforma...
A chromatic vectorial strain sensor constituted by hexagonal voids on transparent elastomeric substrate has been successfully fabricated via soft colloidal lithography. Initially a highly ordered 1.6 microns polystyrene spheres monolayer colloidal cr...
Flourishing in recent years, intelligent electronics is desirably pursued in many fields including bio-symbiotic, human physiology regulatory, robot operation, and human–computer interaction. To support this appealing vision, human-like tactile...
Cellulose-based gels are emerging as promising soft materials for tactile electronic skin (e-skin) because of their tunable network structures, mechanical compliance, sustainability, and compatibility with ionic and electronic conduction. This review...
Tactile sensation across the whole hand, including the fingers and palm, is essential for manipulation and, therefore, is expected to be similarly useful for enabling dexterous robot manipulation. Tactile sensation would ideally be distributed (over...
Optical satellite communications (OSC) downlinks can support much higher bandwidths than radio-frequency channels. However, atmospheric turbulence degrades the optical beam wavefront, leading to reduced data transfer rates. In this study, we propose...
This study aims to present the development of a wearable prototype device consisting of soft robotic gloves (SRGs), its integration into a wearable robotics platform for sensorimotor rehabilitation, and the device’s validation experiments with...
Polymer-based photonic sensors are emerging as cost-effective, scalable alternatives to conventional silicon and glass photonic platforms, offering unique advantages in flexibility, functionality, and manufacturability. This review provides a compreh...
The standard technology used to capture motion for biomechanical analysis in sports has employed marker-based optical systems. While these systems are excellent at providing positional information, they suffer from a limited ability to accurately pro...
Because large oil-immersed transformers are enclosed by a metal shell, the on-site localization means it is difficult to achieve the accurate location of the patrol micro-robot inside a given transformer. To address this issue, a spatial ultrasonic l...
Flexible pressure sensors serve as core sensing components for wearable health monitoring systems, electronic skins for soft robots, and flexible human–machine interaction devices. Benefiting from the interfacial electric double-layer polarizat...
The respiration rate (RR) is a key vital sign that links to adverse clinical outcomes and has various important uses. However, RR signals have been neglected in many clinical practices for several reasons and it is still difficult to develop low-cost...
Colloidal amorphous structures comprise short-range ordered arrays of monodisperse submicrometer-sized particles. They exhibit angle-independent structural color and hence are expected to be promising candidates for advanced color materials. In parti...
This paper introduces the TacFR-Gripper, a novel reconfigurable soft robotic gripper inspired by the Fin-Ray effect and equipped with tactile skin. The gripper incorporates a four-bar mechanism for accurate finger bending and a reconfigurable design...
This study presents a comprehensive workflow for developing and deploying Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP)-based soft sensors on embedded FPGAs, addressing diverse deployment objectives. The proposed workflow extends our prior research by introducing gre...
Scientific and engineering progress associated with increased interest in healthcare monitoring, therapy, and human-machine interfaces has rapidly accelerated the development of bio-integrated multifunctional devices. Recently, compensation for the c...
This review focuses on electromagnetic imaging methods widely used in urban geophysics and civil engineering. The rapid growth of the urban population and the increase in the frequency of extreme events related to climate change make novel approaches...
Amperometric biosensors based on the use of glucose oxidase (GOx) are able to combine the robustness of electrochemical techniques with the specificity of biological recognition processes. However, very little information can be found in literature a...
Conductive polymer materials, particularly PEDOT:PSS conductive polymers, have gained widespread attention due to their excellent conductivity, processability, and biocompatibility, making them highly applicable in fields such as bioelectrodes, flexi...
Understanding brain function requires advanced neural probes to monitor electrical and chemical signaling across multiple timescales and brain regions. Microelectrode arrays (MEAs) are widely used to record neurophysiological activity across various...
In a previous research effort by this group, pseudo engine dynamometer data in multi-dimensional arrays were combined with dynamic equations to form a crank angle resolved engine model compatible with a real-time simulator. The combination of the rea...
Resolving the dichotomy between wide detection ranges and low mechanical hysteresis remains a critical challenge in flexible electronics, largely governed by the intrinsic viscoelastic creep of polymeric dielectrics. Drawing inspiration from the dist...
Water is an essential element for every plant to survive, absorb nutrients, and perform photosynthesis and respiration. If water is polluted, plant growth can be truncated. The aim of this research is to develop a water quality monitoring system for...
Biocompatible thin films are essential for advancing biomedical devices, as they enhance integration with biological tissues, improve device longevity, and reduce complications. The rapid evolution of both medical needs and materials science has led...
Achieving reliable, grid-scale electricity generation from nuclear fusion, as envisioned by the DEMOnstration Fusion Power Plant (DEMO) and future commercial reactors, requires unprecedented plasma stability and long-term control. This operational go...
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