ACS applied materials & interfaces
Dec 29, 2020
In an nanotoxicity system, cell-nanoparticle (NP) interaction leads to the surface adsorption, uptake, and changes into nuclei/cell phenotype and chemistry, as an indicator of oxidative stress, genotoxicity, and carcinogenicity. Different types of n...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Dec 7, 2020
Liquid-crystal elastomer (LCE)-based soft robots and devices via an electrothermal effect under a low driving voltage have attracted a great deal of attention for their ability on generating larger stress, reversible deformation, and versatile actuat...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Nov 2, 2020
A neuromorphic network composed of silver nanowires coated with TiO is found to show certain parallels with neural networks in nature such as biological brains. Owing to the memristive properties emerging at nanowire-to-nanowire contacts, where the A...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Oct 22, 2020
Current wearable sensors are fabricated with substrates, which limits the comfort, flexibility, stretchability, and induces interface mismatch. In addition, the substrate prevents the evaporation of sweat and is harmful to skin health. In this work, ...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Oct 21, 2020
Recent advances in flexible materials and wearable electronics offer a noninvasive, high-fidelity recording of biopotentials for portable healthcare, disease diagnosis, and machine interfaces. Current device-manufacturing methods, however, still heav...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Oct 21, 2020
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have attracted considerable interests for various applications ranging from biosensors to digital logic circuits and artificial synapses. However, the majority of reported OECTs utilize large channel length...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Sep 15, 2020
Developing a simple and universal solution for gripping fragile, multiscaled, and arbitrary-shaped objects using a robot gripper is challenging. Herein, we propose a universal, shape-adaptive/-retaining and reversible, hardness-variable gripper skin ...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Aug 28, 2020
Sensors that can detect external stimuli and perceive the surrounding areas could offer an ability for soft biomimetic robots to use the sensory feedback for closed-loop control of locomotion. Although various types of biomimetic robots have been dev...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Mar 18, 2020
Neuromorphic computing inspired by the neural systems in human brain will overcome the issue of independent information processing and storage. An artificial synaptic device as a basic unit of a neuromorphic computing system can perform signal proces...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Jan 16, 2020
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) based on synaptic devices, which can simultaneously perform processing and storage of data, have superior computing performance compared to conventional von Neumann architectures. Here, we present a ferroelectric cou...