Piezoelectric biomaterials inspired by nature for applications in biomedicine and nanotechnology

S Chen, X Tong, Y Huo, S Liu, Y Yin, ML Tan… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bioelectricity provides electrostimulation to regulate cell/tissue behaviors and functions. In
the human body, bioelectricity can be generated in electromechanically responsive tissues …

Functionality of flexible pressure sensors in cardiovascular health monitoring: a review

S Mishra, S Mohanty, A Ramadoss - ACS sensors, 2022 - ACS Publications
As the highest percentage of global mortality is caused by several cardiovascular diseases
(CVD), maintenance and monitoring of a healthy cardiovascular condition have become the …

CMOS-integrated aluminum nitride MEMS: A review

RMR Pinto, V Gund, RA Dias… - Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aluminum nitride (AlN) has gained wide interest owing to its high values of elastic modulus,
band gap, dielectric strength, resistivity, thermal conductivity and acoustic velocities …

Leveraging IoT-aware technologies and AI techniques for real-time critical healthcare applications

AT Shumba, T Montanaro, I Sergi, L Fachechi… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Personalised healthcare has seen significant improvements due to the introduction of health
monitoring technologies that allow wearable devices to unintrusively monitor physiological …

Vat photopolymerization 3D printing of advanced soft sensors and actuators: from architecture to function

W Zhao, Z Wang, J Zhang, X Wang, Y Xu… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fabrication and assembly of flexible sensors and soft actuators play important roles in
improving the performance of wearable electronics and soft robots. Traditional …

Advanced flexible skin-like pressure and strain sensors for human health monitoring

X Liu, Y Wei, Y Qiu - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, owing to their excellent flexibility and adaptability, skin-like pressure and strain
sensors integrated with the human body have the potential for great prospects in healthcare …

Multifunctional sub-100 µm thickness flexible piezo/triboelectric hybrid water energy harvester based on biocompatible AlN and soft parylene C-PDMS-Ecoflex™

M Mariello, L Fachechi, F Guido, M De Vittorio - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanogenerators have emerged recently as a new technology for harvesting energy from
renewable and clean energy sources. Water in nature carries high amounts of kinetic and …

Multifunctional artificial artery from direct 3D printing with built‐in ferroelectricity and tissue‐matching modulus for real‐time sensing and occlusion monitoring

J Li, Y Long, F Yang, H Wei, Z Zhang… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Treating vascular grafts failure requires complex surgery procedures and is associated with
high risks. A real‐time monitoring vascular system enables quick and reliable identification …

Wearable piezoelectric mass sensor based on pH sensitive hydrogels for sweat pH monitoring

E Scarpa, VM Mastronardi, F Guido, L Algieri… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Colorimetric and electrochemical (bio) sensors are commonly employed in wearable
platforms for sweat monitoring; nevertheless, they suffer from low stability of the sensitive …

Progress in lead-free piezoelectric nanofiller materials and related composite nanogenerator devices

Y Zhang, H Kim, Q Wang, W Jo, AI Kingon… - Nanoscale …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Current piezoelectric device systems need a significant reduction in size and weight so that
electronic modules of increasing capacity and functionality can be incorporated into a great …