Piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting and sensing applications: roadmap for future smart materials

SD Mahapatra, PC Mohapatra, AI Aria… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric materials are widely referred to as “smart” materials because they can
transduce mechanical pressure acting on them to electrical signals and vice versa. They are …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical energy harvesting and self-powered electronic applications of textile-based piezoelectric nanogenerators: A systematic review

S Bairagi, M Shahadat, DM Mulvihill, W Ali - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution resulting from fossil fuel consumption and the limited lifespan of
batteries has shifted the focus of energy research towards the adoption of green renewable …

Control strategies for soft robot systems

J Wang, A Chortos - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots have recently attracted increased attention because their characteristics of low‐
cost fabrication, durability, and deformability make them uniquely suited for applications in …

Wearable health devices—vital sign monitoring, systems and technologies

D Dias, J Paulo Silva Cunha - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Wearable Health Devices (WHDs) are increasingly helping people to better monitor their
health status both at an activity/fitness level for self-health tracking and at a medical level …

All‐nanofiber self‐powered skin‐interfaced real‐time respiratory monitoring system for obstructive sleep apnea‐hypopnea syndrome diagnosing

X Peng, K Dong, C Ning, R Cheng, J Yi… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human respiration is an indispensable physiological behavior of the body, which is an
important indicator to evaluate health status, especially for sleep‐related diseases. A real …

Soft robotics: Review of fluid‐driven intrinsically soft devices; manufacturing, sensing, control, and applications in human‐robot interaction

P Polygerinos, N Correll, SA Morin… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging field of soft robotics makes use of many classes of materials including metals,
low glass transition temperature (Tg) plastics, and high Tg elastomers. Dependent on the …

Monitoring of vital signs with flexible and wearable medical devices

Y Khan, AE Ostfeld, CM Lochner, A Pierre… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in wireless technologies, low‐power electronics, the internet of things, and in the
domain of connected health are driving innovations in wearable medical devices at a …

Recent advances in flexible PVDF based piezoelectric polymer devices for energy harvesting applications

S Sukumaran, S Chatbouri, D Rouxel… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Energy harvesting is one of the most promising research areas to produce sustainable
power sources from the ambient environment. Which found applications to attain the …

Batch fabrication of customizable silicone‐textile composite capacitive strain sensors for human motion tracking

A Atalay, V Sanchez, O Atalay, DM Vogt… - Advanced Materials …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents design and batch manufacturing of a highly stretchable textile‐silicone
capacitive sensor to be used in human articulation detection, soft robotics, and …

Piezoelectric polymer and paper substrates: a review

KK Sappati, S Bhadra - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Polymers and papers, which exhibit piezoelectricity, find a wide range of applications in the
industry. Ever since the discovery of PVDF, piezo polymers and papers have been widely …