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Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, Volume 38, Issue 56, 8 October 2026.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design of high frequency ultrasonic array transducers for medical imaging

open access: yes, 2011
Ultrasonic transducers have been widely used in the medical applications. High frequency array transducers have recently attracted many research interests, since it provides not only the electronic beamforming but also the very fine image resolution. The
Qian, Yichen
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Surface-acoustic-wave transducers for the extremely-high-frequency range using AlN/SiC(0001)

open access: yes, 2016
The fast sound propagation in AlN layers is demonstrated to enable generation of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) by interdigital transducers at a frequency beyond 30 GHz. While scaling down the wavelength of the transducers fabricated on AlN/SiC structures

core   +1 more source

Advanced Manufacturing of Composite‐Based Systems for Energy Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, Volume 11, Issue 20, 21 October 2026.
Advanced manufacturing enables the integration of polymers, ceramics, metal oxides, and composites into architected microstructures with tailored transport pathways. By coupling material selection, manufacturing strategy, and structural design, multifunctional energy systems can simultaneously improve electrochemical performance, thermal management ...
Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of an FPW Biosensor with Low Insertion Loss and High Fabrication Yield for Detection of Carcinoembryonic Antigen

open access: yesSensors, 2016
In the last two decades, various flexural plate-wave (FPW)-based biosensors with low phase velocity, low operation frequency, high sensitivity, and short response time, have been developed. However, conventional FPW transducers have low fabrication yield
Je-Wei Lan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smart Flexible Tactile Sensors: Recent Progress in Device Designs, Intelligent Algorithms, and Multidisciplinary Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, Volume 2, Issue 5, October 2026.
Flexible tactile sensors have considerable potential for broad application in healthcare monitoring, human–machine interfaces, and bioinspired robotics. This review explores recent progress in device design, performance optimization, and intelligent applications. It highlights how AI algorithms enhance environmental adaptability and perception accuracy
Siyuan Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterostructured Semiconductors for Advanced Chemical and Biochemical Sensors: From Gas Sensors to Electrolyte‐Gated Transistors

open access: yesAdvanced Physics Research, Volume 5, Issue 10, October 2026.
Heterostructured semiconductors enable synergistic interactions between complementary materials, improving charge transport, analyte adsorption, and signal transduction in chemical and biochemical sensors. Their integration allows for high sensitivity, selectivity, stability, and low‐power operation across gas and liquid‐phase devices, while novel ...
Martin Schwellberger Barbosa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applications of Substrate Materials for Interdigital Transducers (IDTs): A Review

open access: yes
Structural health monitoring (SHM) based on ultrasonic-guided waves has been widely investigated for aerospace, transportation, marine engineering, petrochemical equipment and large-scale civil infrastructure.
Haitao Zhang   +5 more
core   +1 more source

PVF2 Transducers for NDE [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
We report on recent calculations and experiments on the broadband properties and impulse characteristics of PVF2 transducers and arrays. Experimental wedge transducers show bandwidths of approximately 100% in the excitation of surface acoustic waves at 7
Weinstein, D.   +7 more
core  

Piezoelectric Actuators for In-Liquid Particle Manipulation in Microfluidic Applications

open access: yesProceedings, 2017
The possibility to generate acoustic modes based on FPWs (Flexural Plate Waves) in a generic non-piezoelectric substrate for microfludic applications by means of piezoelectric actuators has been explored and described in this paper.
Marco Demori   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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