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      The Boom in 3D-Printed Sensor Technology

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          Future sensing applications will include high-performance features, such as toxin detection, real-time monitoring of physiological events, advanced diagnostics, and connected feedback. However, such multi-functional sensors require advancements in sensitivity, specificity, and throughput with the simultaneous delivery of multiple detection in a short time. Recent advances in 3D printing and electronics have brought us closer to sensors with multiplex advantages, and additive manufacturing approaches offer a new scope for sensor fabrication. To this end, we review the recent advances in 3D-printed cutting-edge sensors. These achievements demonstrate the successful application of 3D-printing technology in sensor fabrication, and the selected studies deeply explore the potential for creating sensors with higher performance. Further development of multi-process 3D printing is expected to expand future sensor utility and availability.

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          A stretchable carbon nanotube strain sensor for human-motion detection.

          Yuki Yamamoto, Yoshiki Yomogida, Yuki Yamamoto … (2011)
          Devices made from stretchable electronic materials could be incorporated into clothing or attached directly to the body. Such materials have typically been prepared by engineering conventional rigid materials such as silicon, rather than by developing new materials. Here, we report a class of wearable and stretchable devices fabricated from thin films of aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes. When stretched, the nanotube films fracture into gaps and islands, and bundles bridging the gaps. This mechanism allows the films to act as strain sensors capable of measuring strains up to 280% (50 times more than conventional metal strain gauges), with high durability, fast response and low creep. We assembled the carbon-nanotube sensors on stockings, bandages and gloves to fabricate devices that can detect different types of human motion, including movement, typing, breathing and speech.
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            Multigait soft robot.

            Robert F Shepherd, Filip Ilievski, Wonjae Choi … (2011)
            This manuscript describes a unique class of locomotive robot: A soft robot, composed exclusively of soft materials (elastomeric polymers), which is inspired by animals (e.g., squid, starfish, worms) that do not have hard internal skeletons. Soft lithography was used to fabricate a pneumatically actuated robot capable of sophisticated locomotion (e.g., fluid movement of limbs and multiple gaits). This robot is quadrupedal; it uses no sensors, only five actuators, and a simple pneumatic valving system that operates at low pressures (< 10 psi). A combination of crawling and undulation gaits allowed this robot to navigate a difficult obstacle. This demonstration illustrates an advantage of soft robotics: They are systems in which simple types of actuation produce complex motion.
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              High-Resolution Inkjet Printing of All-Polymer Transistor Circuits

              H Sirringhaus, T Kawase, R. Friend … (2000)
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                Contributors
                Nathan Lindquist: Role: Academic Editor
                Nathan Wittenberg: Role: Academic Editor
                Sang-Hyun Oh: Role: Academic Editor
                Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault: Role: Academic Editor
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Sensors (Basel)
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Sensors (Basel)
                Journal ID (publisher-id): sensors
                Title: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
                Publisher: MDPI
                ISSN (Electronic): 1424-8220
                Publication date (Electronic): 19 May 2017
                Publication date Collection: May 2017
                Volume: 17
                Issue: 5
                Electronic Location Identifier: 1166
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Shenzhen 518055, China; xuyy16@ 123456sz.tsinghua.edu.cn (Y.X.); lingxue0313@ 123456163.com (B.K.)
                [2 ]Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China; wuxiaoyu14@ 123456mails.tsinghua.edu.cn (X.W.); guoxiao14@ 123456mails.tsinghua.edu.cn (X.G.); zhang.min@ 123456sz.tsinghua.edu.cn (M.Z.); qian.xiang@ 123456sz.tsinghua.edu.cn (X.Q.)
                [3 ]Open Fiesta, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China
                [4 ]Department of Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
                [5 ]Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
                Author notes
                [* ]Correspondence: mi.shengli@ 123456sz.tsinghua.edu.cn (S.M.); weisun@ 123456mail.tsinghua.edu.cn (W.S.); Tel.: +86-755-2603-6329 (S.M.); +86-755-2603-6331 (W.S.); Fax: +86-755-2603-6356 (S.M.)
                [†]

                These authors contributed equally to this work.

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                Publisher ID: sensors-17-01166
                DOI: 10.3390/s17051166
                PMC ID: 5470911
                PubMed ID: 28534832
                SO-VID: c36c25fc-c4c4-44fa-b5d3-a00dc87a6b77
                Copyright © © 2017 by the authors.
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                Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

                History
                Date received : 31 January 2017
                Date accepted : 04 May 2017
                Categories
                Subject: Review

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Biomedical engineering
                Keywords: 3d printing,sensors,additive manufacturing
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Biomedical engineering
                Keywords: 3d printing, sensors, additive manufacturing

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