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- Mechanosensation electronics, or electronic skin (e-skin), mimic the human sensory system by using flexible and stretchable sensor networks to detect touch, temperature, and pain.
- The presented skin-inspired highly stretchable and conformable matrix network (SCMN) enhances e-skin capabilities, enabling it to sense a variety of stimuli like temperature, strain, humidity, light, magnetic fields, pressure, and proximity through a structured polyimide network.
- This technology has promising applications in areas such as humanoid robotics, advanced prosthetics, human-machine interfaces, and health monitoring.
Article Abstract
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, heat/cold, and pain in skin through various sensory receptors and neural pathways. Here we present a skin-inspired highly stretchable and conformable matrix network (SCMN) that successfully expands the e-skin sensing functionality including but not limited to temperature, in-plane strain, humidity, light, magnetic field, pressure, and proximity. The actualized specific expandable sensor units integrated on a structured polyimide network, potentially in three-dimensional (3D) integration scheme, can also fulfill simultaneous multi-stimulus sensing and achieve an adjustable sensing range and large-area expandability. We further construct a personalized intelligent prosthesis and demonstrate its use in real-time spatial pressure mapping and temperature estimation. Looking forward, this SCMN has broader applications in humanoid robotics, new prosthetics, human-machine interfaces, and health-monitoring technologies.
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