Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide. The rapid
development of flexible sensing technologies and wearable pressure sensors have attracted …

Recent advances in the design and implementation of wearable resistive, capacitive, and
optical strain sensors are summarized herein. Wearable and stretchable strain sensors have …

Bacterial infections are one of the biggest threats to wound healing. Despite significant
efforts in wound condition monitoring and treatment, significant challenges remain in real …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a megatrend that cuts across all scientific and engineering
disciplines and establishes an integrating technical evolution to improve production …

Polymer optical fiber (POF) level sensors have a lot of potential in liquid level sensing
because of their inherent safety, chemical corrosion resistance, anti-electromagnetic …

Advances in medicine and improvements in life quality has led to an increase in the life
expectancy of the general population. An ageing world population have placed demands on …

Smart sensing for aeronautical applications is a multidisciplinary process that involves the
development of various sensor elements and advancements in the nanomaterials field. The …

With the advance of smart material science, robotics is evolving from rigid robots to soft
robots. Compared to rigid robots, soft robots can safely interact with the environment, easily …

Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) requires frequency mapping of the Brillouin
spectrum to obtain environmental information (eg, temperature or strain) over the length of …

Stretchable physical sensors that can detect and quantify human physiological signals such
as temperature, are essential to the realization of healthcare devices for biomedical …