2D Materials based Flexible Sensors and Electronics

A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D:Materials and Processing".

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Interests: 2D materials; biomedical devices; neural probes; sensors; nanotechnology

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Interests: flexible/stretchable electronics; bio-sensors and electronics; micro/nano fabrication; MEMS; nano materials and devices

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Two-dimensional materials, including graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and xenes, have attracted a great deal of interest from academics and industries. While 2D materials started with a humble and simple Scotch-tape method, high-quality wafer-scale synthesis have been demonstrated. These 2D materials have exotic material properties, including transparency in the visible light range, mechanical flexibility, piezoelectricity, high electron mobility and excellent electrochemical properties. Metal dischalocgenides have bandgaps that enable many applications, including digital electronics, photoelectronics and sensing of chemical/biological samples. In particular, the unique geometries of 2D materials, together with their advantages in device performances, promise their application in flexible electronics. In this Special Issue, we would like to invite experts in the field to contribute their work. The topics include, but are not limited to:

  1. Large-scale Synthesis of 2D Materials
  2. Mechancial/chemical/biochemical/magnetics/Optical Sensing using 2D materials
  3. Advanced Electronics Architectures Using 2D Materials.
  4. Other emerging applications of 2D materials.

Prof. Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng
Prof. Cunjiang Yu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • 2D materials
  • graphene
  • metal dischalocgenides
  • flexible sensors and electronics

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Investigating the Potential of Commercial-Grade Carbon Black-Filled TPU for the 3D Printing of Compressive Sensors
by Claudio Manganiello, David Naso, Francesco Cupertino, Orazio Fiume and Gianluca Percoco
Micromachines 2019, 10(1), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi10010046 - 10 Jan 2019
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The present research aims to exploit commercially available materials and machines to fabricate multilayer, topologically designed transducers, which can be embedded into mechanical devices, such as soft or rigid grippers. Preliminary tests on the possibility of fabricating 3D-printed transducers using a commercial conductive [...] Read more.
The present research aims to exploit commercially available materials and machines to fabricate multilayer, topologically designed transducers, which can be embedded into mechanical devices, such as soft or rigid grippers. Preliminary tests on the possibility of fabricating 3D-printed transducers using a commercial conductive elastomeric filament, carbon black-filled thermoplastic polyurethane, are presented. The commercial carbon-filled thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), analyzed in the present paper, has proven to be a candidate material for the production of 3D printed displacement sensors. Some limitations in fabricating the transducers from a 2.85 mm filament were found, and comparisons with 1.75 mm filaments should be conducted. Moreover, further research on the low repeatability at low displacements and the higher performance of the hollow structure, in terms of repeatability, must be carried out. To propose an approach that can very easily be reproduced, only commercial filaments are used. Full article
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