Self-powered sensing in wearable electronics─ a paradigm shift technology

W Tang, Q Sun, ZL Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the advancements in materials science and micro/nanoengineering, the field of
wearable electronics has experienced a rapid growth and significantly impacted and …

Recent progress in electronic skin

X Wang, L Dong, H Zhang, R Yu, C Pan… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The skin is the largest organ of the human body and can sense pressure, temperature, and
other complex environmental stimuli or conditions. The mimicry of human skin's sensory …

Highly sensitive strain sensors based on piezotronic tunneling junction

Q Yu, R Ge, J Wen, T Du, J Zhai, S Liu, L Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Piezotronics with capacity of constructing adaptive and seamless interactions between
electronics/machines and human/ambient are of value in Internet of Things, artificial …

Piezotronics and piezo-phototronics for adaptive electronics and optoelectronics

W Wu, ZL Wang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Low-dimensional piezoelectric semiconductor nanomaterials, such as ZnO and GaN, have
superior mechanical properties and can be integrated into flexible devices that can be …

Vanadium dioxide: The multistimuli responsive material and its applications

Y Ke, S Wang, G Liu, M Li, TJ White, Y Long - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The reversible, ultrafast, and multistimuli responsive phase transition of vanadium dioxide
(VO2) makes it an intriguing “smart” material. Its crystallographic transition from the …

Nanotechnology‐enabled energy harvesting for self‐powered micro‐/nanosystems

ZL Wang, W Wu - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Health, infrastructure, and environmental monitoring as well as networking and defense
technologies are only some of the potential areas of application of micro‐/nanosystems …

Periodic segregation of solute atoms in fully coherent twin boundaries

JF Nie, YM Zhu, JZ Liu, XY Fang - Science, 2013 - science.org
The formability and mechanical properties of many engineering alloys are intimately related
to the formation and growth of twins. Understanding the structure and chemistry of twin …

2D zinc oxide–synthesis, methodologies, reaction mechanism, and applications

SA Patil, PB Jagdale, A Singh, RV Singh, Z Khan… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a thermally stable n‐type semiconducting material. ZnO 2D nanosheets
have mainly gained substantial attention due to their unique properties, such as direct …

Taxel-addressable matrix of vertical-nanowire piezotronic transistors for active and adaptive tactile imaging

W Wu, X Wen, ZL Wang - Science, 2013 - science.org
Designing, fabricating, and integrating arrays of nanodevices into a functional system are
the key to transferring nanoscale science into applicable nanotechnology. We report large …

Group-IV (A) Janus dichalcogenide monolayers and their interfaces straddle gigantic shear and in-plane piezoelectricity

P Nandi, A Rawat, R Ahammed, N Jena, A De Sarkar - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Inversion symmetry in the 1T-phase of pristine dichalcogenide monolayer MX2 (M= Ge, Sn;
X= S, Se) is broken in their Janus structures, MXY (M= Ge, Sn; X≠ Y= S, Se), which induces …