Publications by authors named "Nianqiang Zhang"

Flexible pressure sensors have a wide range of applications in the field of human motion signal detection, but the electromagnetic radiation generated during the monitoring process has become an unavoidable problem. Nowadays, it is still a challenge to develop high-performance pressure sensors with excellent electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding performance. Herein, the TiCT MXene/carbon fiber/multiwalled carbon nanotube/polydimethylsiloxane (MXene/CMP) films with a micropyramidal structure were developed by the technology of vacuum high-temperature hot pressing and spray deposition.

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Flexible strain sensors have been widely researched in fields such as smart wearables, human health monitoring, and biomedical applications. However, achieving a wide sensing range and high sensitivity of flexible strain sensors simultaneously remains a challenge, limiting their further applications. To address these issues, a cross-scale combinatorial bionic hierarchical design featuring microscale morphology combined with a macroscale base to balance the sensing range and sensitivity is presented.

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Flexible strain sensors have been continuously optimized and widely used in various fields such as health monitoring, motion detection, and human-machine interfaces. There is a higher demand for sensors that can sensitively identify both the strain amplitude and direction in real-time to adapt to complex human movements. This study proposes a flexible strain sensor construction strategy based on V-groove/wrinkle hierarchical structures via a facile and scalable prestretching approach.

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Article Synopsis
  • - Amorphous materials retain some properties of their crystalline counterparts but also exhibit unique features, making them interesting for technological applications.
  • - Researchers successfully synthesized large samples of nearly pure sp amorphous carbon, which has diamond-like characteristics, by heating fullerenes under high pressure.
  • - This new amorphous carbon shows exceptional hardness, elastic modulus, and thermal conductivity, along with tunable optical properties, paving the way for advanced uses of amorphous materials.
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