Nature-inspired structural materials for flexible electronic devices

Y Liu, K He, G Chen, WR Leow, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Exciting advancements have been made in the field of flexible electronic devices in the last
two decades and will certainly lead to a revolution in peoples' lives in the future. However …

[HTML][HTML] Potential applications of whisker sensors in marine science and engineering: a review

S Wang, J Liu, B Liu, H Wang, J Si, P Xu… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Perception plays a pivotal role in both biological and technological interactions with the
environment. Recent advancements in whisker sensors, drawing inspiration from nature's …

3D, reconfigurable, multimodal electronic whiskers via directed air assembly

JT Reeder, T Kang, S Rains, W Voit - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A batch‐assembly technique for forming 3D electronics on shape memory polymer
substrates is demonstrated and is used to create dense, highly sensitive, multimodal arrays …

Electronic whiskers for velocity sensing based on the liquid metal hysteresis effect

X Sun, JH Fu, H Zhao, W Xiang, F Zhan, C Sun, S Tang… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The artificial biomimetic sensory hair as state-of-art electronics has drawn great attention
from academic theorists of industrial production given its potential application in soft …

Whisker Sensor for Robot Environments Perception: A Review

Z Yu, PRN Childs, Y Ge… - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nocturnal mammals such as rats heavily depend on whisker-based tactile perception to find
their way through burrows and to identify objects. There is diversity in the whiskers in terms …

3D-conductive pathway written on leather for highly sensitive and durable electronic whisker

R Xie, J Zhu, H Wu, K Zhang, B Zou, X Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Printing methods are potential strategies to realize the fabrication of flexible electronics on a
large scale with low cost, and have been widely adopted to fabricate flexible electronic …

Tactile sensor array with tertiary leaf-vein structures and position-encoded capacity

CP Jiang, N Zhao, GC Shen, ZD Lin… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible tactile sensor is a preferred alternative in the development of human-machine
interface (HMI) and robotics, which directly influences how we understand and interact with …

An artificial vibrissa-like sensor for detection of flows

M Scharff, P Schorr, T Becker, C Resagk… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
In nature, there are several examples of sophisticated sensory systems to sense flows, eg,
the vibrissae of mammals. Seals can detect the flow of their prey, and rats are able to …

Drive-by large-region acoustic noise-source mapping via sparse beamforming tomography

C Tuna, S Zhao, TNT Nguyen, DL Jones - The Journal of the …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Environmental noise is a risk factor for human physical and mental health, demanding an
efficient large-scale noise-monitoring scheme. The current technology, however, involves …

The effects of fluidic loading on underwater contact sensing with robotic fins and beams

JC Kahn, JL Tangorra - IEEE transactions on haptics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As robots become more involved in underwater operations, understanding underwater
contact sensing with compliant systems is fundamental to engineering useful haptic …