Recently, the team led by Professor Yao Yao from our university, in collaboration with the team led by Professor Xu Feng from Xi'an Jiaotong University, issued a review paper of "Bioinspired Conductive Hydrogels: Rational Engineering for Next-generation Flexible Mechatronic Sensors" in the international top journal of materialsScience & Engineering R.
The paper systematically reviewed design principles, functionalization strategies, and advanced manufacturing methods for conductive hydrogels applied in flexible mechanical sensors, while also explored the application prospects for the gelation mechanics sensors. It amply introduced the conduction mechanisms, performance optimization strategies, and representative research advancements of ionic conductive hydrogels, intrinsic conductive polymer hydrogels, and conductive filler composite hydrogels. Meanwhile, the paper elaborated on the studying progress in microstructure fabrication techniques such as photolithography, template casting, 3D printing, and fiberization for rapid and precise manufacturing of conductive hydrogels. Furthermore, it probed into the extensive applications of conductive hydrogel-based flexible mechanics sensors in human motion monitoring, physiological signal detection, human-machine interaction, and intellectual agriculture.
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