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Pressure Sensors: (Small 36/2016)
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201670181
Subject(s) - polydimethylsiloxane , electrode , materials science , nanotechnology , pressure sensor , capacitive sensing , wearable computer , tactile sensor , bending , computer science , polystyrene , optoelectronics , composite material , mechanical engineering , physics , artificial intelligence , engineering , embedded system , quantum mechanics , robot , operating system , polymer
On page 5042, T. Zhang and co‐workers demonstrate a feasible bionic strategy to fabricate the flexible micro‐patterned electrodes by using the microstructures of the lotus leaf as an effective soft mold. The novel flexible capacitive tactile sensor based on the micropatterned flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/Au electrodes and polystyrene (PS) microspheres was developed with high sensitivity (0.815 kPa −1 ), fast response time (38 ms) and low detection limit (17.5 Pa), which presents the ability to “feel” not only the pressure caused by an ultra‐light object, but also the bending and stretching force.