Emerging techniques in organelle structural biology have revolutionized our understanding of disease mechanisms and opened new possibilities for developing targeted therapies. In particular, dysfunctions of the Golgi apparatus (GA) have been implicat...
Cardiac mapping is a crucial procedure for diagnosing and treating cardiac arrhythmias. Still, current clinical techniques face limitations including insufficient electrode coverage, poor conformability to complex heart chamber geometries, and high c...
Biology is characterized by smooth, elastic, and nonplanar surfaces; as a consequence, soft electronics that enable interfacing with nonplanar surfaces allow applications that could not be achieved with the rigid and integrated circuits that exist to...
In this paper, we propose Automatic Configuration Memory Fault Injection (ACMFI), a tool that calculates the architectural vulnerability factor (AVF) and soft error rate (SER) using the emulation fault injection technique. SER, which is essential for...
Soft material structures exhibit high deformability and conformability which can be useful for many engineering applications such as robots adapting to unstructured and dynamic environments. However, the fact that they have almost infinite degrees of...
Soft or flexible electronics is a rapidly growing and pioneering research field, as it makes devices comfortable to use, especially in biomedical engineering. Both single- and multi-network hydrogels have diverse applications where the most significa...
After decades of developments, electron microscopy has become a powerful and irreplaceable tool in understanding the ionic, electrical, mechanical, chemical, and other functional performances of next-generation polymers and soft complexes. The recent...
Sensors are core elements to directly obtain information from surrounding objects for further detecting, judging and controlling purposes. With the rapid development of soft electronics, flexible sensors have made considerable progress, and can bette...
Flexible inorganic electronic devices (FIEDs) consisting of functional inorganic components on a soft polymer substrate have enabled many novel applications such as epidermal electronics and wearable electronics, which cannot be realized through conv...
The growing demand for wearable devices, soft robotics, and tissue engineering in recent years has led to an increased effort in the field of soft materials. With the advent of personalized devices, the one-shape-fits-all manufacturing methods may so...
This paper focuses on the recent development of soft pneumatic actuators for soft robotics over the past few years, concentrating on the following four categories: control systems, material and construction, modeling, and sensors. This review work se...
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and wearable technologies, the demand for soft, multifunctional electronic materials has grown substantially. Hydrogels have emerged as a promising platform due to their intrinsic softness, stretc...
Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), designed in wearable and implantable configurations, have enormous applications in advanced healthcare, rapid disease diagnostics, and persistent human-machine interfaces. Soft, contoured geometries and time-dynamic...
A power factor correction circuit for a single-phase arc welding power source using digital soft switching technology is proposed. The overall hardware structure of the system, the topology principle of the selected soft switch boost circuit, and the...
The rapid development of electronic material and sensing technology has enabled research to be conducted on liquid metal-based soft sensors. The application of soft sensors is widespread and has many applications in soft robotics, smart prosthetics,...
Wearable electronics and soft robotics are emerging fields utilizing soft and stretchable sensors for a variety of wearable applications. In this paper, the fabrication of a highly stretchable capacitive sensor with a printed carbon black/Ecoflex int...
Three-dimensional (3D) printing has various applications in many fields, such as soft electronics, robotic systems, biomedical implants, and the recycling of thermoplastic composite materials. Three-dimensional printing, which was only previously ava...
The rapid development of micro/nanofabrication technologies to engineer a variety of materials has enabled new types of bioelectronics for health monitoring and disease diagnostics. In this review, we summarize widely used electronic materials in rec...
Wireless power transfer (WPT) for portable electronic applications has been gaining a lot of interest over the past few decades. This study provides a comprehensive review of the recent advancements in WPT technology, along with the challenges faced...
Soft actuators made from soft organic materials that can exhibit biomimetic motions, such as artificial muscles, have recently attracted substantial interest for applications in soft robotics, wearable electronics, and haptic interfaces, where flexib...
This study addresses the limitations of traditional polyimides (PIs) in high-frequency and high-temperature soft electronic applications, and then introducing trifluoromethylbenzene (TFMB) into the molecular structure and employing various diamines a...
Liquid metals are one of the most interesting and promising materials due to their electrical, fluidic, and thermophysical properties. With the aid of their exceptional deformable natures, liquid metals are now considered to be electrically conductiv...
In the fields of humanoid robots, soft robotics, and wearable electronics, the development of artificial skins entails pressure sensors that are low in modulus, high in sensitivity, and minimal in hysteresis. However, few sensors in the literature ca...
Soft robots, constructed from deformable materials, offer significant advantages over rigid robots by mimicking biological tissues and providing enhanced adaptability, safety, and functionality across various applications. Central to these robots are...
As consumers demand ever-higher quality standards for agricultural products, the inspection of such goods has become an integral component of the agricultural production process. Unfortunately, traditional testing methods necessitate the deployment o...
Hard-magnetic soft materials belong to a class of the highly deformable magneto-active elastomer family of smart materials and provide a promising technology for flexible electronics, soft robots, and functional metamaterials. When hard-magnetic soft...
Stretchable electronics rely on sophisticated structural designs to allow brittle metallic conductors to adapt to curved or moving substrates. Patterns of soft islands and stable cracks in layered silver-PDMS composites provide exceptional stretchabi...
High-performance flexible electronics require soft materials that combine mechanical robustness with efficient ionic conduction. In conventional ionogels, however, these requirements often conflict: dense networks improve strength but reduce the free...
Soft mechanical inductive (SMI) sensors are emerging as a promising solution for advanced robotics, healthcare, and wearable devices, offering high precision, adaptability, and environmental robustness. These sensors leverage coil-based designs to ac...
The intersection of biomedicine and radio frequency (RF) engineering has fundamentally transformed self-health monitoring by leveraging soft and wearable electronic devices. This paradigm shift presents a critical challenge, requiring these devices a...
Soft robots with good deformability and adaptability have important prospects in the bionics and intelligence field. However, current research into soft robots is primarily limited to the study of actuators and ignores the integrated use of functiona...
Electronic skin with human-like sensory capabilities has been widely applied to artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, and the prosthetic hand for expanding the sensing ability of robots. Robotic electronic skin (RES) based on conductive hy...
Wireless communication applications above 300 GHz need careful analog electronics design that takes into account the frequency-dependent nature of ohmic resistance at these frequencies. The cumbersome development of electronics brings quantum optical...
Sleep is an essential element to human life, restoring the brain and body from accumulated fatigue from daily activities. Quantitative monitoring of daily sleep quality can provide critical feedback to evaluate human health and life patterns. However...
The auxiliary power supply in a power converter is a key topic in the optimization of the converter’s low-voltage electronic circuit performance. In this article, a low-voltage DC-AC soft-switching full-bridge topology, with an innovative, driv...
Amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys, as novel soft magnetic materials, can enable high efficiency in a wide range of power conversion techniques. Their wide application requires a thorough understanding of the fundamental material mechanisms, typica...
Planar and rigid conventional electronics are intrinsically incompatible with curvilinear and deformable devices. The recent development of organic and inorganic flexible and stretchable electronics enables the production of various applications, suc...
Stretchable electronics represent a new generation of electronics that utilize soft, deformable elastomers as the substrate or matrix instead of the traditional rigid printed circuit boards. As the most essential component of stretchable electronics,...
With the recent great progress made in flexible and wearable electronic materials, the upcoming next generation of skin-mountable and implantable smart devices holds extensive potential applications for the lifestyle modifying, including personalized...
Stretchable conductive composites are important for soft electronics, wearable systems, and adaptive electromechanical devices, yet the mechanisms governing strain-dependent electrical transport remain insufficiently understood, particularly in hybri...
Wearable electronics, particularly dry epidermal electrodes, provide human-connected interfaces for recording biopotential signals. However, their practical utility is often hindered by their limited operational longevity and the resulting environmen...
The industrial revolution 4.0 has led to a burst in the development of robotic automation and platforms to increase productivity in the industrial and health domains. Hence, there is a necessity for the design and production of smart and multi-functi...
As a crucial intersection of flexible electronics and embodied intelligent robotics, electronic skin is evolving from single flexible sensors toward a skin-like intelligent system integrating flexible support, signal sensing, environmental protection...
Following the promising results obtained at the SPARC_LAB test-facility in Frascati (Italy), we have recently submitted a proposal to develop a new facility driven by a plasma accelerator module for extended and user-oriented applications. The new mu...
A variable resolution, transform limited monochromator is designed for the Free Electron Laser (FEL) source of LCLS. It provides monochromatic beam in the 250–1500 eV range, delivering the beam on the second floor of the LCLS experimental Hall....
Soft-feel material (mainly polyurethane (PU), silicone rubber (SR), and polyacrylic acid (PAA), etc.) coatings can overcome the drawbacks of common plastic products such as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene copolymer (ABS), polycarbonate (PC), and poly...
Recent advancements in wearable electronics have significantly enhanced human–device interaction, enabling applications such as continuous health monitoring, advanced diagnostics, and augmented reality. While progress in material science has im...
One of the traditional issues in space missions is the reliability of the electronic components on board spacecraft. There are numerous techniques to deal with this, from shielding and rad-hard fabrication to ad-hoc fault-tolerant designs. Although m...
With the rapid development of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), time-resolved resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (tr-RIXS) has attracted more attention. The preliminary designs of the tr-RIXS branchline and expected performance characteristics at...
Mainstream next generation electronic devices with miniaturized structures and high levels of performance are needed to meet the characteristic requirements of electronics with flexible and stretchable capabilities. Accordingly, several applied field...
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