Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. In a recent ...

Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. In a recent study, ...

Flexible piezoelectric crystal Date: February 8, 2021 Source: Nanyang Technological University Summary: A team of researchers has developed a new material, that when electricity is applied to it ...

A research team has developed a machine learning-based acoustic sensor for speaker recognition. The team fabricated a flexible piezoelectric membrane by mimicking the basilar membrane in the human ...

The advancements in tactile perception and feedback technologies have propelled the interaction between humans and the ...

This study reveals a promising strategy to fabricate reliable piezoelectric nanofibers for high-performance flexible sensors.

A printed flexible sheet of piezoelectric smart material (Photo by H. Cui of the Zheng Lab) The piezoelectric materials that inhabit everything from our cell phones to musical greeting cards may ...

Although there already are experimental "telehaptic" systems that allow people to send and receive tactile sensations, they tend to be rather bulky and awkward. A new one is much slimmer and thus ...

To create the garment, the team wove a flexible piezoelectric fiber into fabric. Piezoelectric materials “generate internal electrical charge from applied mechanical stress,” per Sciencing ...

Existing designs of flexible piezoelectric sensors are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. Researchers tackled these issues by developing a novel piezoelectric composite material.