Endowing actuators with sensing capability: Recent progress on perceptive soft actuators

L Li, W Zhang, Z Ren, L Chang, X Xu, Y Hu - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, soft actuators have received enormous interest for potential
applications in artificial muscles, soft grippers, wearable devices, minimally invasive surgery …

Flexible piezoelectric materials and strain sensors for wearable electronics and artificial intelligence applications

Y Chen, X Zhang, C Lu - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the applications of flexible piezoelectric
sensors in health monitoring and human–machine interaction have attracted increasing …

Self-poled piezoelectric polymer composites via melt-state energy implantation

ZX Huang, LW Li, YZ Huang, WX Rao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Lightweight flexible piezoelectric polymers are demanded for various applications. However,
the low instinctively piezoelectric coefficient (ie. d33) and complex poling process greatly …

Impact of PVDF and its copolymer-based nanocomposites for flexible and wearable energy harvesters

SS Panicker, SP Rajeev, V Thomas - Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects, 2023 - Elsevier
Encountering the consumption of fossil fuels on a large scale and contamination of the
environment due to chemical batteries, along with the rapid growth of various wearable …

Enhancing structural response via macro-micro hierarchy for piezoelectric nanogenerator and self-powered wearable controller

Y Han, L Song, H Du, G Wang, T Zhang, L Ni… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric polymeric composites exhibit pronounced impact on flexible electronic
devices, demonstrating the capacity to harvest high-entropy energy. Nevertheless, the …

Giant Piezoelectric Coefficient of Polyvinylidene Fluoride with Rationally Engineered Ultrafine Domains Achieved by Rapid Freezing Processing

YZ Huang, Z Liu, LW Li, HZ He, ZL Wang… - Advanced …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Domains play an essential role in determining the piezoelectric properties of
polymers. The conventional method for achieving ultrafine piezoelectric domain structures …

Enhancing the piezoelectric coefficient of SrTiO3 nanocubes and PVDF film deposited by supersonic spraying for energy-harvesting nanogenerators

C Park, W Lim, B Joshi, T Kim, E Samuel… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many perovskites and their piezoelectric composites have been investigated for harvesting
ambient mechanical energy over the past two decades; however, the prospects for their …

Fluorine polyimide nanofibrous composites with outstanding piezoelectric property for human motion monitoring

S Chen, J Li, B Zhang, L Huang, K Chen, W Fan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The limited high-temperature resistance of conventional piezoelectric polymers remains an
extremely arduous obstacle to fabricate a flexible sensor that meets the practical application …

Functional hydrogel strain sensors for smart electronic devices: Strategies and recent progress

T Du, Z Zhu, M Chen, X Yan, Y Li - ACS Applied Electronic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hydrogel strain sensors are emerging in the preparation of various flexible electronic
devices, particularly in wearable devices, electronic skin, and smart medical devices …

Ingenious Structure Engineering to Enhance Piezoelectricity in Poly (vinylidene fluoride) for Biomedical Applications

J Cui, L Du, Z Meng, J Gao, A Tan, X Jin… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The future development of wearable/implantable sensing and medical devices relies on
substrates with excellent flexibility, stability, biocompatibility, and self-powered capabilities …