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Flexible wearable sensors - an update in view of touch-sensing
Nowadays, much of user interface is based on touch and the touch sensors have been common for displays, Internet of things (IoT) projects, or robotics. They can be found in lamps, touch screens of smartphones, or other wide arrays of applications as well. However, the conventional touch sensors, fab...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8018418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33854405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14686996.2020.1862629 |
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author | Vu, Chi Cuong Kim, Sang Jin Kim, Jooyong |
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description | Nowadays, much of user interface is based on touch and the touch sensors have been common for displays, Internet of things (IoT) projects, or robotics. They can be found in lamps, touch screens of smartphones, or other wide arrays of applications as well. However, the conventional touch sensors, fabricated from rigid materials, are bulky, inflexible, hard, and hard-to-wear devices. The current IoT trend has made these touch sensors increasingly important when it added in the skin or clothing to affect different aspects of human life flexibly and comfortably. The paper provides an overview of the recent developments in this field. We discuss exciting advances in materials, fabrications, enhancements, and applications of flexible wearable sensors under view of touch-sensing. Therein, the review describes the theoretical principles of touch sensors, including resistive, capacitive, and piezoelectric types. Following that, the conventional and novel materials, as well as manufacturing technologies of flexible sensors are considered to. Especially, this review highlights the multidisciplinary approaches such as e-skins, e-textiles, e-healthcare, and e-control of flexible touch sensors. Finally, we summarize the challenges and opportunities that use is key to widespread development and adoption for future research. |
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spelling | pubmed-80184182021-04-13 Flexible wearable sensors - an update in view of touch-sensing Vu, Chi Cuong Kim, Sang Jin Kim, Jooyong Sci Technol Adv Mater Engineering and Structural materials Nowadays, much of user interface is based on touch and the touch sensors have been common for displays, Internet of things (IoT) projects, or robotics. They can be found in lamps, touch screens of smartphones, or other wide arrays of applications as well. However, the conventional touch sensors, fabricated from rigid materials, are bulky, inflexible, hard, and hard-to-wear devices. The current IoT trend has made these touch sensors increasingly important when it added in the skin or clothing to affect different aspects of human life flexibly and comfortably. The paper provides an overview of the recent developments in this field. We discuss exciting advances in materials, fabrications, enhancements, and applications of flexible wearable sensors under view of touch-sensing. Therein, the review describes the theoretical principles of touch sensors, including resistive, capacitive, and piezoelectric types. Following that, the conventional and novel materials, as well as manufacturing technologies of flexible sensors are considered to. Especially, this review highlights the multidisciplinary approaches such as e-skins, e-textiles, e-healthcare, and e-control of flexible touch sensors. Finally, we summarize the challenges and opportunities that use is key to widespread development and adoption for future research. Taylor & Francis 2021-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8018418/ /pubmed/33854405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14686996.2020.1862629 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by National Institute for Materials Science in partnership with Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Engineering and Structural materials Vu, Chi Cuong Kim, Sang Jin Kim, Jooyong Flexible wearable sensors - an update in view of touch-sensing |
title | Flexible wearable sensors - an update in view of touch-sensing |
title_full | Flexible wearable sensors - an update in view of touch-sensing |
title_fullStr | Flexible wearable sensors - an update in view of touch-sensing |
title_full_unstemmed | Flexible wearable sensors - an update in view of touch-sensing |
title_short | Flexible wearable sensors - an update in view of touch-sensing |
title_sort | flexible wearable sensors - an update in view of touch-sensing |
topic | Engineering and Structural materials |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8018418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33854405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14686996.2020.1862629 |
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