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Electronic Skin: Recent Progress and Future Prospects for Skin‐Attachable Devices for Health Monitoring, Robotics, and Prosthetics Open
Recent progress in electronic skin or e‐skin research is broadly reviewed, focusing on technologies needed in three main applications: skin‐attachable electronics, robotics, and prosthetics. First, since e‐skin will be exposed to prolonged…
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Skin-inspired highly stretchable and conformable matrix networks for multifunctional sensing Open
Mechanosensation electronics (or Electronic skin, e-skin) consists of mechanically flexible and stretchable sensor networks that can detect and quantify various stimuli to mimic the human somatosensory system, with the sensations of touch,…
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Flexible Electronics toward Wearable Sensing Open
Wearable sensors play a crucial role in realizing personalized medicine, as they can continuously collect data from the human body to capture meaningful health status changes in time for preventive intervention. However, motion artifacts a…
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A breathable, biodegradable, antibacterial, and self-powered electronic skin based on all-nanofiber triboelectric nanogenerators Open
A breathable, biodegradable, antibacterial, and self-powered skin is developed.
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Biofuel-powered soft electronic skin with multiplexed and wireless sensing for human-machine interfaces Open
A flexible and fully biofuel-powered electronic skin enables continuous, multiplexed, and multimodal wireless sensing.
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Rehealable, fully recyclable, and malleable electronic skin enabled by dynamic covalent thermoset nanocomposite Open
Novel electronic skin is rehealable and 100% recyclable.
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3D Printed Stretchable Tactile Sensors Open
The development of methods for the 3D printing of multifunctional devices could impact areas ranging from wearable electronics and energy harvesting devices to smart prosthetics and human–machine interfaces. Recently, the development of st…
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Plasticizing Silk Protein for On‐Skin Stretchable Electrodes Open
Soft and stretchable electronic devices are important in wearable and implantable applications because of the high skin conformability. Due to the natural biocompatibility and biodegradability, silk protein is one of the ideal platforms fo…
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Inkjet-Printed Graphene/PEDOT:PSS Temperature Sensors on a Skin-Conformable Polyurethane Substrate Open
Epidermal electronic systems (EESs) are skin-like electronic systems, which can be used to measure several physiological parameters from the skin. This paper presents materials and a simple, straightforward fabrication process for skin-con…
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Energy autonomous electronic skin Open
Energy autonomy is key to the next generation portable and wearable systems for several applications. Among these, the electronic-skin or e -skin is currently a matter of intensive investigations due to its wider applicability in areas, ra…
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Recent Developments for Flexible Pressure Sensors: A Review Open
Flexible pressure sensors are attracting great interest from researchers and are widely applied in various new electronic equipment because of their distinct characteristics with high flexibility, high sensitivity, and light weight; exampl…
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Energy‐Autonomous, Flexible, and Transparent Tactile Skin Open
Tactile or electronic skin is needed to provide critical haptic perception to robots and amputees, as well as in wearable electronics for health monitoring and wellness applications. Energy autonomy of skin is a critical feature that would…
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Mixed-dimensional MXene-hydrogel heterostructures for electronic skin sensors with ultrabroad working range Open
Heterogeneous integration of robust hydrogel and soft MXene shows multifunctional sensing.
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Large-Area Soft e-Skin: The Challenges Beyond Sensor Designs Open
Sensory feedback from touch is critical for many tasks carried out by robots and humans, such as grasping objects or identifying materials. Electronic skin (e-skin) is a crucial technology for these purposes. Artificial tactile skin that c…
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Rubbery electronics and sensors from intrinsically stretchable elastomeric composites of semiconductors and conductors Open
Stretchable rubber-like electronics from intrinsically stretchable semiconductors and conductors are demonstrated.
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3D Printing Technologies for Flexible Tactile Sensors toward Wearable Electronics and Electronic Skin Open
3D printing has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Over the past three decades, various 3D printing technologies have been developed including photopolymerization-based, materials extrusion-based, sheet lamination-based, binder …
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Paper/Carbon Nanotube-Based Wearable Pressure Sensor for Physiological Signal Acquisition and Soft Robotic Skin Open
A wearable and flexible pressure sensor is essential to the realization of personalized medicine through continuously monitoring an individual's state of health and also the development of a highly intelligent robot. A flexible, wearable p…
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Bioinspired conductive cellulose liquid-crystal hydrogels as multifunctional electrical skins Open
Significance We present an electronic skin (E-skin) based on hydroxypropyl cellulose composite hydrogel with stable cholesteric liquid-crystal structures and bright structural colors. Due to the utilization of the composite hydrogel with m…
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High‐Performance Flexible Pressure Sensor with a Self‐Healing Function for Tactile Feedback Open
High‐performance flexible pressure sensors have attracted a great deal of attention, owing to its potential applications such as human activity monitoring, man–machine interaction, and robotics. However, most high‐performance flexible pres…
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Second Skin Enabled by Advanced Electronics Open
Electronic second skin is touted as the next interface to expand applications of electronics for natural and seamless interactions with humans to enable smart health care, the Internet of Things, and even to amplify human sensory abilities…
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Physical sensors for skin‐inspired electronics Open
Skin, the largest organ in the human body, is sensitive to external stimuli. In recent years, an increasing number of skin‐inspired electronics, including wearable electronics, implantable electronics, and electronic skin, have been develo…
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Tailoring force sensitivity and selectivity by microstructure engineering of multidirectional electronic skins Open
We present piezoresistive electronic skins with tunable force sensitivity and selectivity in response to multidirectional forces (normal, shear, tensile, bending) by engineering microstructure geometries (dome, pyramid, pillar). Microdome …
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3D Printing of Flexible Electronic Devices Open
Compared to traditional , simple, planar or tubular flexible devices fabricated by spin‐coating, casting, or extrusion, 3D‐printed flexible electronic devices possess complicated geometries with precisely prescribed microarchitectures and …
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Recent progress in self‐powered multifunctional e‐skin for advanced applications Open
Electronic skin (e‐skin), new generation of flexible wearable electronic devices, has characteristics including flexibility, thinness, biocompatibility with broad application prospects, and a crucial place in future wearable electronics. W…
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Repurposed Leather with Sensing Capabilities for Multifunctional Electronic Skin Open
Electronic skin (e‐skin), an important part toward the realization of artificial intelligence, has been developing through comprehending, mimicking, and eventually outperforming skin in some aspects. Most of the e‐skin substrates are flexi…
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E-Skin: From Humanoids to Humans [Point of View] Open
With robots starting to enter our lives in a number of ways (e.g., social, assistive, and surgery), the electronic skin (e-skin) is becoming increasingly important. The capability of detecting subtle pressure or temperature changes makes t…
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Self-powered user-interactive electronic skin for programmable touch operation platform Open
We report a self-powered user-interactive electronic skin with seamless integration of visual and electrical mapping of pressure.
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Ultrasensitive skin-like wearable optical sensors based on glass micro/nanofibers Open
Electronic skin, a class of wearable electronic sensors that mimic the functionalities of human skin, has made remarkable success in applications including health monitoring, human-machine interaction and electronic-biological interfaces. …
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Self-Powered Analogue Smart Skin Open
The progress of smart skin technology presents unprecedented opportunities for artificial intelligence. Resolution enhancement and energy conservation are critical to improve the perception and standby time of robots. Here, we present a se…
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A Review of Printable Flexible and Stretchable Tactile Sensors Open
Flexible and stretchable tactile sensors that are printable, nonplanar, and dynamically morphing are emerging to enable proprioceptive interactions with the unstructured surrounding environment. Owing to its varied range of applications in…