With the merits of high sensitivity, high stability, high flexibility, low cost, and simple manufacturing, flexible magnetic field sensors have potential applications in various fields such as geomagnetosensitive E-Skins, magnetoelectric compass, and...
The manta ray, exemplifying an agile swimming mode identified as the median and paired fin (MPF) mode, inspired the development of underwater robots. Robotic manta typically comprises a central rigid body and flexible pectoral fins. Flexible fins pro...
During the process of satellite capture by a flexible base–link–joint space robot, the base, joints, and links vibrate easily and also rotate in a disorderly manner owing to the impact torque. To address this problem, a repetitive learning sliding mo...
This paper presents the dynamic model of a flexible-link, flexible-joint manipulator system with a considerable stiffening effect of the flexible link. A gripper, along with tip mass, is attached at one end of the flexible link. By employing the exte...
Surge capacity is the ability to manage the increased influx of critically ill or injured patients during a sudden onset crisis. During such an event, all ordinary resources are activated and used in a systematic, structured, and planned way to cope...
Miniaturization has been the driving force of scientific and technological advances over recent decades. Recently, flexibility has gained significant interest, particularly in miniaturization approaches for biomedical devices, wearable sensing techno...
Medical science technology has improved tremendously over the decades with the invention of robotic surgery, gene editing, immune therapy, etc. However, scientists are now recognizing the significance of ‘biological circuits’ i.e., bodily...
Flexible electronic devices require metal interconnects to facilitate the flow of electrical signals among the device components, ensuring its proper functionality. There are multiple factors to consider when designing metal interconnects for flexibl...
The application of flexible electronics in the field of communication has made the transition from rigid physical form to flexible physical form. Flexible electrode technology is the key to the wide application of flexible electronics. However, flexi...
Carbon aerogels are highly porous materials with a large inner surface area. Due to their high electrical conductivity they are excellent electrode materials in supercapacitors. Their brittleness, however, imposes certain limitations in terms of appl...
The piezoelectric effect refers to a physical phenomenon where piezoelectric materials generate an electric field when subjected to mechanical stress or undergo mechanical deformation when subjected to an external electric field. This principle under...
Configuring energy storage systems (ESSs) in distribution networks is an effective way to alleviate issues induced by intermittent distributed generation such as transformer overloading and line congestion. However, flexibility has not been fully tak...
The field of flexible antennas is witnessing an exponential growth due to the demand for wearable devices, Internet of Things (IoT) framework, point of care devices, personalized medicine platform, 5G technology, wireless sensor networks, and communi...
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of a diblock copolymer consisting of a flexible and semi-flexible block in a dense array of parallel nanoposts with a square lattice packing were performed. The mutual interactions between the two blocks...
The spread of wearable and flexible electronics devices has been accelerating in recent years for a wide range of applications. Development of an appropriate flexible power source to operate these flexible devices is a key challenge. Supercapacitors...
A high performance manipulator servo drive system is a double flexible system with flexible joints and flexible loads. Flexible joints are composed of elastic connecting elements, and flexible loads are flexible Euler beams with elastic deformation....
We fabricated transparent and flexible silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) hard coating (HC) films on a colorless polyimide substrate to use as cover window films for flexible and foldable displays using a reactive roll-to-roll (R2R) sputtering system at room...
The popularity of health concepts and the wave of digitalization have driven the innovation of sensors in the medical field. Such continual development has made sensors progress in the direction of safety, flexibility, and intelligence for continuous...
Emerging trends like the Internet of Things require an increasing number of different sensors, actuators and electronic devices. To enable new applications, such as wearables and electronic skins, flexible sensor technologies are required. However, e...
With the rapid development of flexible electronic devices (especially flexible LCD/OLED), flexible transparent electrodes (FTEs) with high light transmittance, high electrical conductivity, and excellent stretchability have attracted extensive attent...
The increasing demands for portable, intelligent, and wearable electronics have significantly promoted the development of flexible supercapacitors (SCs) with features such as a long lifespan, a high degree of flexibility, and safety. MXenes, a class...
Rieck and Nedelman (1991) introduced the sinh-normal distribution. This model was built as a transformation of a N(0,1) distribution. In this paper, a generalization based on a flexible skew normal distribution is introduced. In this way, a more gene...
Flexible electronic devices have received great attention in the fields of foldable electronic devices, wearable electronic devices, displays, actuators, synaptic bionics and so on. Among them, high-performance flexible memory for information storage...
This paper investigates the behavior of PM-type polyurethane flexible joints connecting structural components. Although flexible polyurethanes are known for their energy dissipation capacity and ability to accommodate large deformations—particu...
In the field of micromechanics, piezoelectric actuator has attracted great attention for its high-frequency response, high displacement resolution, and high output force. However, its prospect of practical application has been largely limited by the...
Given the advancements in modern living standards and technological development, conventional smart devices have proven inadequate in meeting the demands for a high-quality lifestyle. Therefore, a revolution is necessary to overcome this impasse and...
This work reports the fabrication of innovative flexible conductive polymer composites (FCPCs), composed of poly (2,3-dihydrothieno-1,4-dioxin)-poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), polypyrrole (PPy) and copper phthalocyanine (CuPc). These FCPCs were...
The development of renewable energy is of great significance to relieve the pressure on the energy supply and promote the low-carbon operation of the power system. However, the volatility of renewable energy, especially wind and solar energy, has a g...
Flexible sensors have the potential to be seamlessly applied to soft and irregularly shaped surfaces such as the human skin or textile fabrics. This benefits conformability dependant applications including smart tattoos, artificial skins and soft rob...
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that are based on flexible substrates are widely used in flexible, reconfigurable radio frequency (RF) systems, such as RF MEMS switches, phase shifters, reconfigurable antennas, phased array antennas and resonat...
With the development of cross-fertilisation in various disciplines, flexible wearable sensing technologies have emerged, bringing together many disciplines, such as biomedicine, materials science, control science, and communication technology. Over t...
This paper presents a bio-inspired rigid–flexible continuum robot driven by flexible shaft tension–torsion synergy, tackling the trade-off between actuation complexity and flexibility in continuum robots. Inspired by the muscular arrangem...
The integration of nanocomposite thin films with combined multifunctionalities on flexible substrates is desired for flexible device design and applications. For example, combined plasmonic and magnetic properties could lead to unique optical switcha...
With the goal of creating a flexible spatial parallel robot system in which the elastic deformation of the flexible link causes a rigid moving platform to produce small vibrations, we proposed an adaptive sliding mode control algorithm based on a neu...
Flexible sensors are low cost, wearable, and lightweight, as well as having a simple structure as per the requirements of engineering applications. Furthermore, for many potential applications, such as human health monitoring, robotics, wearable elec...
The recent fast advances in consumer electronics, especially in cell phones and displays, have led to the development of ultra-thin, hence flexible, glasses. Once available, such flexible glasses have proven to be of great interest and usefulness in...
Flexible energy storage devices have attracted wide attention as a key technology restricting the vigorous development of wearable electronic products. However, the practical application of flexible batteries faces great challenges, including the lac...
In the current literature, there exists a lack of analysis regarding the coordination of the spinning reserve and time-shift characteristics of hydrogen storage systems (HSS) and flexible carbon capture systems (FCCS) in terms of low-carbon economic...
Miniaturized flexible microsupercapacitors (MSCs) that can be integrated into self-powered sensing systems, detecting networks, and implantable devices have shown great potential to perfect the stand-alone functional units owing to the robust securit...
Almost all modern proteins possess well-defined, relatively rigid scaffolds that provide structural preorganization for desired functions. Such scaffolds require the sufficient length of a polypeptide chain and extensive evolutionary optimization. Ho...
The conventional methodologies for the design of flexible pavements are not adequate in providing solutions that meet the diverse sustainability challenges. Therefore, developing new methodologies and frameworks for the design of flexible pavement ha...
Flexible electrochromic devices (ECDs) represent a distinctive category in optoelectronics, leveraging advanced materials to achieve tunable coloration under applied electric voltage. This review delves into recent advancements in electrode materials...
The inherent disadvantages of traditional non-flexible aerogels, such as high fragility and moisture sensitivity, severely restrict their applications. To address these issues and make the aerogels efficient, especially for advanced medical applicati...
In this article, we present the procedure of preparation of flexible electronic paper with a photosensitive azo dye layer as the key element for changing the orientation of the polarization plane. The main steps of the technology for the fabrication...
Rapid improvements in 3D printing technology bring about new possibilities to print with different types of printing materials. New studies have investigated and presented various printing methodologies. However, the majority of these studies are tar...
Elastic polymer-based conductive composites (EPCCs) are of great potential in the field of flexible sensors due to the advantages of designable functionality and thermal and chemical stability. As one of the popular choices for sensor electrodes and...
As an important part of the quadruped robot, the leg determines its performance. Flexible legs or flexible joints aid in the buffering and adaptability of robots. At present, most flexible quadruped robots only have two-dimensional flexibility or use...
Ultrasonic (US) transducers have been widely used in the field of ultrasonic and photoacoustic imaging system in recent years, to convert acoustic and electrical signals into each other. As the core part of imaging systems, US transducers have been e...
In this work, the major methods for implementing flexible sensing technology—flexible surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors—are summarized; the working principles and device characteristics of the flexible SAW sensors are introduced; and th...
The flexible bearing is the kernel component of the cam wave generator. In precision transmission applications such as miniature robot joints, flexible bearings are required to have a smaller mass, lower moment of inertia, and larger inner diameter....
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