A method for gas–solid two-phase flow pattern identification in horizontal pneumatic conveying pipelines is proposed based on an electrostatic sensor array (ESA) and artificial neural network (ANN). The ESA contains eight identical arc shaped e...
Electrostatic sensor arrays (ESAs) are promising in industrial applications related to charged particle monitoring. Sensitivity is a fundamental and commonly-used sensing characteristic of an ESA. However, the usually used spatial sensitivity, which...
In this paper, a novel approach is presented to the measurement of marine icing phenomena under the presence of a two-phase condition. We have developed a sensor consisting of an electrostatic array and a signal processing based on a decision tree me...
Spacecraft electrostatic discharge (ESD) can generate transient electric-field disturbances, pulse currents, and electromagnetic coupling that threaten onboard electronics and mission reliability. Localizing discharge sources in confined spacecraft s...
Electrostatic signals in pneumatic conveying depend on solids mass flow rate, air velocity, particle distribution and material, complicating direct estimation. This study classified five nominal solids mass flow rates (0.1–10 g/s) for wheat flo...
A mixture of positive and negative static charges exists in the same plane on an insulator surface, and this can cause production quality problems at manufacturing sites. This study developed a system with a vibration array sensor to rapidly measure...
This paper proposes a method based on a planar array of electrostatic induction electrodes, which uses human body electrostatics to measure the height of hand movements. The human body is electrostatically charged for a variety of reasons. In the pro...
We analyse the spectral content and parametric resonant dynamics of an array of elastically and electrostatically coupled interdigitated micro cantilevers assembled into two identical half-arrays. In this uncommon arrangement, within each of the half...
In this paper, we propose a new fingerprint sensing technology based on electrostatic imaging, which can greatly improve fingerprint sensing distance. This can solve the problem of the existing capacitive fingerprint identification device being easy...
Attention has been paid to the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, due to the maximum benefit acquired from the early-stage intervention and treatment. However, the sensing techniques primarily depended upon for neuroimaging and immunologic...
Convenient and highly sensitive detection of oxalate ions in body fluids is of crucial significance for disease prevention, diagnosis, and monitoring of treatment effectiveness. Establishing a simple solid-state electrochemiluminescence (ECL) sensing...
The development of simple and probe-integrated aptamer sensors for the electrochemical detection of tumor biomarkers is of great significance for the diagnosis of tumors and evaluation of prognosis. In this work, a probe-integrated aptamer sensor is...
We report on theoretical and experimental investigation of parametric amplification of acoustically excited vibrations in micromachined single-crystal silicon cantilevers electrostatically actuated by fringing fields. The device dynamics are analyzed...
At the moment, manipulation of liquid microdroplets is required in various microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip devices, as well as advanced sensors. The platforms used for these purposes should provide the possibility of controlled selective movement and...
Glutathione (GSH), cysteine (Cys), and homocysteine (Hcy) are essential biothiols involved in redox homeostasis and cell signaling. Yet, their structural similarity poses a significant challenge for accurate discrimination in complex biological sampl...
The convenient and sensitive detection of metabolites is of great significance for understanding human health status and drug development. Solid-phase electrochemiluminescence (ECL) enzyme electrodes show great potential in metabolite detection based...
In the present work zinc oxide nanoflakes (ZnO-NF) structures with a wall thickness around 50 to 100 nm were synthesized on a gold coated glass substrate using a low temperature hydrothermal method. The enzyme uricase was electrostatically immobilize...
We analyse, as a design study, a cryogenic sensor that images the electrostatic stray field of a vitrified biological cell with an array of gate-defined quantum dots in gapped bilayer graphene. No device has been fabricated and no transport data are...
With the growing security requirements of sensor nodes in Internet of Things (IoT) systems, conventional silicon-circuit-based physical unclonable functions (PUFs) still face limitations in circuit overhead, design complexity, and system integration....
The accurate measurement of solid concentration in horizontal gas–solid flows is very important to guarantee production efficiency and process control. However, gravity causes uneven particle distribution, which creates a strong nonlinear relat...
The differences in urinary proteins could provide a novel opportunity to distinguish the different types of drug-induced kidney injury (DIKI). In this research, Au nanoparticles–polyethyleneimine (AuNPs–PEI) and the three fluorophore-labe...
In this paper, we proposed an eye-tracking system featuring a small size and high scanning frequency, utilizing an electrostatic biaxial scanning mirror fabricated through a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) process. A laser beam is directed ont...
Glucose (Glu) detection, as a fundamental analytical technique, has applications in medical diagnostics, clinical testing, bioanalysis and environmental monitoring. In this work, a solid-phase electrochemiluminescence (ECL) enzyme sensor was develope...
The detection of bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is of great significance in the quality control of food and water. In this study, a light-addressable potentiometric sensor (LAPS) deposited with highly oriented ZnO nanorod arrays (NRAs) was use...
Rapid and highly sensitive determination of clozapine (CLZ), a psychotropic drug for the treatment of refractory schizophrenia, in patients is of great significance to reduce the risk of disease recurrence. However, direct electroanalysis of CLZ in h...
Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a promising technology because it can harvest energy from the environment to enable self-sustainable mobile and wearable electronic devices. In this work, we present a flexible touch pad capable of detecting the...
This study presents a structural screening and molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) computational analysis of various organoboronic acids as effective co-formers in pharmaceutical crystal engineering. The strong predictability of dimeric B(OH)2 ho...
Graphene oxide-decorated silver nanoparticles growing on titania nanotube array (GO/Ag/TiO2 NTA) were designed as active Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor substrates for sensitive determination of the organic compound bisphenol A. The t...
We report an example of the realization of a flexible capacitive piezoelectric sensor based on the assembly of horizontal