Porous Conductive Textiles for Wearable Electronics DOI
Yichun Ding, Jinxing Jiang, Yingsi Wu

et al.

Chemical Reviews, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 124(4), P. 1535 - 1648

Published: Feb. 19, 2024

Over the years, researchers have made significant strides in development of novel flexible/stretchable and conductive materials, enabling creation cutting-edge electronic devices for wearable applications. Among these, porous textiles (PCTs) emerged as an ideal material platform electronics, owing to their light weight, flexibility, permeability, wearing comfort. This Review aims present a comprehensive overview progress state art utilizing PCTs design fabrication wide variety integrated systems. To begin with, we elucidate how revolutionize form factors electronics. We then discuss preparation strategies PCTs, terms raw processes, key properties. Afterward, provide detailed illustrations are used basic building blocks fabricate intrinsically flexible or stretchable devices, including sensors, actuators, therapeutic energy-harvesting storage displays. further describe techniques systems either by hybridizing conventional off-the-shelf rigid components with integrating multiple fibrous PCTs. Subsequently, highlight some important application scenarios healthcare, sports training, converging technologies, professional specialists. At end Review, challenges perspectives on future research directions give overall conclusions. As demand more personalized interconnected continues grow, PCT-based wearables hold immense potential redefine landscape technology reshape way live, work, play.

Language: Английский

Electronic Textiles for Wearable Point-of-Care Systems DOI

Guorui Chen,

Xiao Xiao, Xun Zhao

et al.

Chemical Reviews, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 122(3), P. 3259 - 3291

Published: Dec. 23, 2021

Traditional public health systems are suffering from limited, delayed, and inefficient medical services, especially when confronted with the pandemic aging population. Fusing traditional textiles diagnostic, therapeutic, protective devices can unlock electronic (e-textiles) as point-of-care platform technologies on human body, continuously monitoring vital signs implementing round-the-clock treatment protocols in close proximity to patient. This review comprehensively summarizes research advances e-textiles for wearable systems. We start a brief introduction emphasize significance of current healthcare system. Then, we describe textile sensors diagnosis, therapeutic treatment, prevention, by highlighting their working mechanisms, representative materials, clinical application scenarios. Afterward, detail e-textiles' connection gateway real-time data transmission processing context 5G Internet Things. Finally, provide new insights into remaining challenges future directions field e-textiles. Fueled chemistry materials science, textile-based diagnostic devices, communication units expected interact synergistically construct intelligent, platforms, ultimately illuminating system Things era.

Language: Английский

Citations

524
Flexible self-charging power sources DOI
Ruiyuan Liu, Zhong Lin Wang, Kenjiro Fukuda

et al.

Nature Reviews Materials, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 7(11), P. 870 - 886

Published: May 12, 2022

Language: Английский

Citations

343
Wearable Triboelectric Sensors Enabled Gait Analysis and Waist Motion Capture for IoT‐Based Smart Healthcare Applications DOI
Quan Zhang, Tao Jin,

Jianguo Cai

et al.

Advanced Science, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 9(4)

Published: Nov. 19, 2021

Gait and waist motions always contain massive personnel information it is feasible to extract these data via wearable electronics for identification healthcare based on the Internet of Things (IoT). There also remains a demand develop cost-effective human-machine interface enhance immersion during long-term rehabilitation. Meanwhile, triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) revealing its merits in both IoT tends be possible solution. Herein, authors present TENG-based devices gait analysis motion capture intelligence performance lower-limb Four sensors are equidistantly sewed onto fabric belt recognize motion, enabling real-time robotic manipulation virtual game immersion-enhanced training. The insole equipped with two TENG designed walking status detection 98.4% accuracy five different humans aiming at rehabilitation plan selection achieved by leveraging machine learning technology further analyze signals. Through robot, demonstrate that sensory system performs well user recognition, monitoring, as robot gaming-aided training, showing potential IoT-based smart applications.

Language: Английский

Citations

292
Significance of sensors for industry 4.0: Roles, capabilities, and applications DOI Creative Commons
Mohd Javaid, Abid Haleem, Ravi Pratap Singh

et al.

Sensors International, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 2, P. 100110 - 100110

Published: Jan. 1, 2021

Sensors play a crucial role in factory automation making the system intellectual. Different types of sensors are available as per suitability and applications; some them produced mass market at affordable costs. The standard sensor position sensors, pressure flow temperature force sensors. They used many sectors, such motorsport, medical, industry, aerospace, agriculture, daily life. objective Industry 4.0 is to increase efficiency through automation. vital components 4.0, allowing several transitions changes positions, length, height, external dislocations industrial production facilities be detected, measured, analysed, processed. Smart factories will also enhance sustainability by tracking real-time output, automated control systems minimise potential maintenance It can seen that digitalisation improve mobility, which gives advanced manufacturing firms competitive advantage. This paper discusses their various types, along with significant capabilities for manufacturing. step-by-step working Blocks Quality Services during implementation elaborated diagrammatically. Finally, we identified thirteen applications 4.0. provides an excellent opportunity development across globe. In enjoy higher acceptance rates benefit from fully enabled connecting data exchange logistics integration. coming years, installations may grow process management, lines, digital supply chains.

Language: Английский

Citations

237
Graded Interlocks for Iontronic Pressure Sensors with High Sensitivity and High Linearity over a Broad Range DOI
Ningning Bai, Liu Wang, Yiheng Xue

et al.

ACS Nano, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 16(3), P. 4338 - 4347

Published: March 2, 2022

Flexible pressure sensors that have high sensitivity, linearity, and a wide pressure-response range are highly desired in applications of robotic sensation human health monitoring. The challenge comes from the incompressibility soft materials stiffening microstructures device interfaces lead to gradually saturated response. Therefore, signal is nonlinear limited. Here, we show an iontronic flexible sensor can achieve sensitivity (49.1 kPa-1), linear response (R2 > 0.995) over broad (up 485 kPa) enabled by graded interlocks array hemispheres with fine pillars ionic layer. linearity fact pillar deformation compensate for effect structural stiffening. response-relaxation time <5 ms, allowing detect vibration signals frequencies up 200 Hz. Our has been used recognize objects different weights based on machine learning during gripper grasping tasks. This work provides strategy make combined performances range.

Language: Английский

Citations

220
Recent Advances in Carbon Material‐Based Multifunctional Sensors and Their Applications in Electronic Skin Systems DOI

Yunjian Guo,

Wei Xiao, Song Gao

et al.

Advanced Functional Materials, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 31(40)

Published: July 11, 2021

Abstract Electronic skin (e‐skin) is driving significant advances in flexible electronics as it holds great promise health monitoring, human–machine interfaces, soft robotics, and so on. Flexible sensors that can detect various stimuli or have multiple properties play an indispensable role e‐skin. Despite tremendous research efforts devoted to with excellent performance regarding a certain sensing mode property, emerging e‐skin demands multifunctional be endowed the skin‐like capability beyond. Considering outstanding superiorities of electrical conductivity, chemical stability, ease functionalization, carbon materials are adopted implement sensors. In this review, latest carbon‐based regard types detection modes abundant introduced. The corresponding preparation process, device structure, mechanism, obtained performance, intriguing applications highlighted. Furthermore, diverse systems by integrating current cutting‐edge technologies (e.g., data acquisition transmission, neuromorphic technology, artificial intelligence) systematically investigated detail. Finally, existing problems future developing directions also proposed.

Language: Английский

Citations

211
Advances in graphene-based flexible and wearable strain sensors DOI
Hui Chen,

Fengling Zhuo,

Jian Zhou

et al.

Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 464, P. 142576 - 142576

Published: March 22, 2023

Language: Английский

Citations

211
Multidiscipline Applications of Triboelectric Nanogenerators for the Intelligent Era of Internet of Things DOI Creative Commons

Xiaole Cao,

Yao Xiong, Jia Sun

et al.

Nano-Micro Letters, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: Dec. 20, 2022

In the era of 5G and Internet things (IoTs), various human-computer interaction systems based on integration triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) IoTs technologies demonstrate feasibility sustainable self-powered functional systems. The rapid development intelligent applications TENGs mainly relies supplying harvested mechanical energy from surroundings implementing active sensing, which have greatly changed way human production daily life. This review introduced TENG in multidiscipline scenarios IoTs, including smart agriculture, industry, city, emergency monitoring, machine learning-assisted artificial intelligence applications. challenges future research directions toward also been proposed. extensive developments will push forward into an autonomy fashion.

Language: Английский

Citations

204
A high-accuracy, real-time, intelligent material perception system with a machine-learning-motivated pressure-sensitive electronic skin DOI Creative Commons
Wei Xiao, Hao Li, Wenjing Yue

et al.

Matter, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 5(5), P. 1481 - 1501

Published: March 15, 2022

Language: Английский

Citations

185
Functionalized Fiber-Based Strain Sensors: Pathway to Next-Generation Wearable Electronics DOI Creative Commons
Zekun Liu,

Tianxue Zhu,

Junru Wang

et al.

Nano-Micro Letters, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 14(1)

Published: Feb. 15, 2022

Wearable strain sensors are arousing increasing research interests in recent years on account of their potentials motion detection, personal and public healthcare, future entertainment, man-machine interaction, artificial intelligence, so forth. Much has focused fiber-based due to the appealing performance fibers, including processing flexibility, wearing comfortability, outstanding lifetime serviceability, low-cost large-scale capacity. Herein, we review latest advances functionalization device fabrication fiber materials toward applications wearable sensors. We describe approaches for preparing conductive fibers such as spinning, surface modification, structural transformation. also introduce sensing mechanisms state-of-the-art analyze merits demerits. The multifunctional summarized with typical examples. finally critically tough challenges remarks sensors, aiming implement them real applications.

Language: Английский

Citations

184