ACS applied materials & interfaces
May 13, 2024
Cosmetics and topical medications, such as gels, foams, creams, and lotions, are viscoelastic substances that are applied to the skin or mucous membranes. The human perception of these materials is complex and involves multiple sensory modalities. Tr...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
May 3, 2024
Constructing antifouling surfaces is a crucial technique for optimizing the performance of devices such as water treatment membranes and medical devices in practical environments. These surfaces are achieved by modification with hydrophilic polymers....
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Apr 9, 2024
An artificial nociceptor, as a critical and special bionic receptor, plays a key role in a bioelectronic device that detects stimuli and provides warnings. However, fully exploiting bioelectronic applications remains a major challenge due to the lack...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Apr 6, 2024
Light-driven soft actuators based on photoresponsive materials can be used to mimic biological motion, such as hand movements, without involving rigid or bulky electromechanical actuations. However, to our knowledge, no robust photoresponsive materia...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Mar 23, 2024
Smart wearables with the capability for continuous monitoring, perceiving, and understanding human tactile and motion signals, while ensuring comfort, are highly sought after for intelligent healthcare and smart life systems. However, concurrently ac...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Mar 5, 2024
Benefiting from the brain-inspired event-driven feature and asynchronous sparse coding approach, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are becoming a potentially energy-efficient replacement for conventional artificial neural networks. However, neuromorphic...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Feb 9, 2024
Soft robots have great potential applications in manufacturing, disaster rescue, medical treatment, etc. Artificial muscle is one of the most important components of a soft robot. In previous years, hydrogel actuators that can be controllably deforme...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Feb 8, 2024
Stretchable sensors have been widely investigated and developed for the purpose of human motion detection, touch sensors, and healthcare monitoring, typically converting mechanical/structural deformation into electrical signals. The viscoelastic stra...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Feb 1, 2024
High-performance flexible piezoresistive sensors are becoming increasingly essential in various novel applications such as health monitoring, soft robotics, and human-computer interaction. The evolution of the interfacial contact morphology determine...
ACS applied materials & interfaces
Jan 25, 2024
Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is seriously limited in kidney injury detection due to the nephrotoxicity of clinically used gadolinium-based contrast agents. Herein, we propose a noninvasive method for the assessment of kidney inj...