Nature-inspired structural materials for flexible electronic devices

Y Liu, K He, G Chen, WR Leow, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Exciting advancements have been made in the field of flexible electronic devices in the last
two decades and will certainly lead to a revolution in peoples' lives in the future. However …

Hair flow sensors: from bio-inspiration to bio-mimicking—a review

J Tao, XB Yu - Smart Materials and Structures, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A great many living beings, such as aquatics and arthropods, are equipped with highly
sensitive flow sensors to help them survive in challenging environments. These sensors are …

Highly skin‐conformal microhairy sensor for pulse signal amplification

C Pang, JH Koo, A Nguyen, JM Caves… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A bioinspired microhairy sensor is developed to enable ultraconformability on nonflat
surfaces and significant enhancement in the signal‐to‐noise ratio of the retrieved signals …

Magnetic nanocomposite cilia tactile sensor

A Alfadhel, J Kosel - Advanced Materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial cilia sensors are devices developed to mimic the extremely sensitive
mechanosensorial hair-like cilia receptors found in nature.[16, 24] For instance, cilia are …

Bioinspired artificial hair sensors for flight-by-feel of unmanned aerial vehicles: A review

AC Hollenbeck, R Grandhi, JH Hansen, AM Pankonien - AIAA Journal, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
Flight-by-feel is an emerging approach to flight control that uses distributed arrays of
pressure, strain, and flow sensors to guide aircraft. Among these, hair-type flow sensors …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinspired cilia sensors with graphene sensing elements fabricated using 3D printing and casting

AM Kamat, Y Pei, AGP Kottapalli - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Sensor designs found in nature are optimal due to their evolution over millions of years,
making them well-suited for sensing applications. However, replicating these complex, three …

Fixed-wing MAV attitude stability in atmospheric turbulence—Part 2: Investigating biologically-inspired sensors

A Mohamed, S Watkins, R Clothier… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2014 - Elsevier
Challenges associated with flight control of agile fixed-wing Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs)
operating in complex environments is significantly different to any larger scale vehicle. The …

Morphological intelligence mechanisms in biological and biomimetic flow sensing

Z Gong, Y Cao, H Cao, B Wan, Z Yang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many aquatic and aerial animals have evolved highly sensitive flow receptors to help them
survive in challenging environments. The biological flow receptors, such as filiform hairs …

Bioinspired PDMS-graphene cantilever flow sensors using 3D printing and replica moulding

AM Kamat, X Zheng, B Jayawardhana… - …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Flow sensors found in animals often feature soft and slender structures (eg fish neuromasts,
insect hairs, mammalian stereociliary bundles, etc) that bend in response to the slightest …

Mechanical responses of rat vibrissae to airflow

YSW Yu, MM Graff… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
The survival of many animals depends in part on their ability to sense the flow of the
surrounding fluid medium. To date, however, little is known about how terrestrial mammals …