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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"stretchable electronics"”.
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Materials Strategies and Devices for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics
… a simple approach to high performance, stretchable and foldable integrated circuits was developed by integrating aligned arrays of nanoribbons of single crystalline silicon with ultrathin plastic and elastomeric substrates with an unconventional geometry, such as wavy and non-coplanar …
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Fabrication process and electromechanical characterization of a sliding connector system for modular stretchable electronics
The development of stretchable electronics has opened the potential for novel types of wearable electronic devices that can conform to curvilinear surfaces. In the traditional wearable space, modularity has been explored as a way to make devices customizable and multi-functional. Extending …
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Advances in materials strategies, circuit designs, and informatics for wearable, flexible and stretchable electronics with medical and robotic applications
The future of medical electronics should be flexible, stretchable and skin-integrated. While modern electronics become increasing smaller, faster and energy efficient, the designs remain bulky and rigid due to materials and processing limitations. The miniaturization of health monitoring devices in …
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DEVELOPMENT OF A NANOCOMPOSITE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR MONITORING OF LOCOMOTION OF A SOFT EARTHWORM ROBOT
… to provide feedback locomotion. Here, a stretchable nanocomposite strain sensor with integrated wireless electronics to provide a feedbackloop locomotion of a soft robotic earthworm is presented. The ultrathin and soft strain sensor based on a carbon nanomaterial and a low-modulus …
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A modular and stretchable electronic system for on-body health monitoring applications
… (e.g. Fitbit) are composed of bulky rigid electronics that are not customizable and are too rigid for the skin. To overcome such limitations, a modular system based on thin and stretchable electronic modules was proposed. To link modules together, a novel four pin sliding connector was …
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Integrated multi-media platform for hybrid 3D printing
… prescribed for application specific uses from stretchable electronics to sensing and heating elements. Potential applications of Hybrid 3D printing are highlighted by using the developed platform and the silver ink, including printed/embedded electronics, soft robotics, and smart structures.
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Deriving and numerically solving the weak form equation of a continuum field model for an electro-elastic-diffusive system
… that make them ideal for portable stretchable electronics. However, these still incur substantial energy losses during energy storage and tend to have less ionic conductivity when compared to their liquid electrolyte counterparts. Still, advancements have been made recently by …
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Flexible, stretchable, biointegrated arrays of electronic thermal sensors and actuators for advancements in clinical medicine
… of ultrathin (total thickness <5 µm), flexible, stretchable, skin-conforming devices that map temperatures to a precision (<20 mK) exceeding that of sophisticated infrared cameras for clinical research. We establish the foundational mechanical, electrical and thermal physics and associated design …
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A kinetostatic conceptual framework to design deformable mechanical metamaterials
… compliant mechanisms, wearable medical devices, stretchable electronics, and soft robotics. Design of deformable mechanical metamaterials is challenging because it requires considering the topology and deformations at different hierarchical levels, and there are no systematic design frameworks …
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One-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials And Manufacturing of Deformable Electronics For Healthcare and Soft Robotics
… emerging wearable health monitors, implantable electronics, AI-augmented bionic prosthetics and intelligent soft robotics. One dimensional (1D) nanostructures of electronic materials are promising material system for fabricating soft electronics due to their unique form factor. Despite …
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Characterizing Plastic Deformation Mechanisms in Metal Thin Films using In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Nanomechanics
… features for devices such as flexible or stretchable electronics or micro electromechanical systems (MEMS). Nanocrystalline (NC) and ultrafine-grained (UFG) metal thin films show increased strength when compared to their coarse-grained equivalents, and as a result, have been proposed as …
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Assembly and integration of two-dimensional nanomaterials for advanced interfaces and sensors
… attentions because of their promise in future electronics, surface coating, biosensing, as well as the compatibility with the scalable and low-cost, top-down fabrication process. In this dissertation, I further explore the potentiality of 2D materials as an advanced surface and field-effect …
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A Kirigami Approach for Controlling Properties of Adhesives and Composites
… aeronautics, drug delivery, soft robotics, and stretchable electronics applications. Recently, techniques building upon kirigami principles, the Japanese art of paper cutting, have been considered an effective strategy to control stiffness and deformation of materials by systemically integrating …
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On the foldability of rigid origami
… metamaterials, self-folding robotics, stretchable electronics, fold-core deployable structures, architectures, large space elements), even in multiple forms of art. My research focus is on the unsolved theoretical challenges when establishing systematic theories for rigid origami. These …
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High Resolution Multi-parametric Diagnostics and Therapy of Atrial Fibrillation: Chasing Arrhythmia Vulnerabilities in the Spatial Domain
… designed and characterized a novel platform of stretchable electronics that provide instrumented membranes across the epicardial surface or implanted within the transmural wall to provide physiological feedback during electrotherapy beyond just the electrical state of the tissue. By combining a …
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Flexible, stretchable, and transient electronics for integration with the human body
… and (4) physically transient, implantable electronics, all with the capability of stable operation for long timeframes.
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Printed microscale mono-crystalline silicon on flexible substrates for photovoltaic, strain sensors, and neural interface applications
… display, flexible photovoltaic, epidermal electronics, and other systems) that can be integrated outside of conventional wafer-based electronics. With suitable choice of materials and design strategies, inorganic semiconductors (e.g., Si and GaAs) can be used on unconventional substrates …
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The impact of strain and chemical functionalization on two-dimensional materials
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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A mechanically-guided approach to three-dimensional functional mesostructures towards unconventional applications
Controlled formation of three-dimensional functional mesostructures (3DFMs) has broad engineering implications in biomedical devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), optics, and energy storage. Most existing 3D techniques, however, not only lack compatibility with essential electronic …
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Controlling and Exploiting Spiropyran-based Mechanochromism
… have utilized mechanochromism for soft</p><p>and stretchable electronics, which are promising for a variety of applications such as</p><p>wearable electronics, human− machine interfaces, and soft robotics. These devices,</p><p>which are often encased in elastomeric materials, maintain or adjust …
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