Recent advances in wearable electromechanical sensors—Moving towards machine learning-assisted wearable sensing systems

N Dai, IM Lei, Z Li, Y Li, P Fang, J Zhong - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
With the assistance of powerful machine learning algorithms, data collecting and processing
efficiency of wearable electromechanical sensors are highly improved. Meanwhile, the …

Piezoelectrets for wearable energy harvesters and sensors

X Mo, H Zhou, W Li, Z Xu, J Duan, L Huang, B Hu… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Wearable electronics have attracted attention for their potential use in constructing a human-
centered intelligent world. As one of the most promising materials for constructing high …

Direct 3D printing of piezoelectrets: process feasibility, prototypes fabrication and device performance

X Wang, Z Liu, H Wang, C Zeng - Engineered Science, 2022 - espublisher.com
Piezoelectrets (or piezoelectric polymer foams) are porous piezoelectric materials with a
wide range of applications particularly sensing. They have been successfully fabricated …

Spray-coated electret materials with enhanced stability in a harsh environment for an MEMS energy harvesting device

A Luo, Y Xu, Y Zhang, M Zhang, X Zhang… - Microsystems & …, 2021 - nature.com
The charge stability of electret materials can directly affect the performance of electret-based
devices such as electrostatic energy harvesters. In this paper, a spray-coating method is …

Ferroelectrets: Recent developments

X Qiu, Y Bian, J Liu, Y Xiang, T Ding, W Zhu… - IET …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectrets (also called piezoelectrets) are relatively young members in the family of
piezo‐, pyro‐and ferroelectric materials. They exhibit ferroic behaviour phenomenologically …

Fabrication, structure characterization, and performance testing of piezoelectret-film sensors for recording body motion

P Fang, X Ma, X Li, X Qiu, R Gerhard… - IEEE Sensors …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During muscle contractions, radial-force distributions are generated on muscle surfaces due
to muscle-volume changes, from which the corresponding body motions can be recorded by …

Flexible pressure sensors with microstructures

R Tang, F Lu, L Liu, Y Yan, Q Du, B Zhang… - Nano …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Microstructured flexible pressure sensors featured with good mechanical properties,
boosting a variety of sophisticated application scenarios, including electronic skin (e‐skin) …

Air-cavity-free multiphase composite piezoelectrets with high piezoelectric sensitivity for self-powered flexible sensors and energy harvesters

Y Liu, C Wu, X Qiu, P Xu, Y Xiang, FZ Xuan - Applied Materials Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Piezoelectrets (also called ferroelectrets) combine large piezoelectricity with mechanical
flexibility and elastic compliance, and therefore attract much attention from academia and …

[PDF][PDF] Ferroelectrets: Heterogenous polymer electrets with high piezoelectric sensitivity for transducers.

X Qiu, P Fang, A Mellinger, RAP Altafim… - Journal of Advanced …, 2023 - researching.cn
Nowadays, the demand for advanced functional materials in transducer technology is
growing rapidly. Piezoelectric materials transform mechanical variables (displacement or …

Green paper-based piezoelectronics for sensors and actuators

E Lemaire, R Moser, CJ Borsa, D Briand - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2016 - Elsevier
We report a novel biodegradable piezoelectric composite fabricated from paper and the
piezoelectric salt, sodium potassium tartrate tetrahydrate (Rochelle salt, which we term …