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Interface Pressure-Friction Mechanics of Neonatal Mattress-Textile Combinations

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
In neonatal and infant care, the contact of skin with mattress and textile covers is particularly critical for preventing soft tissue damage due to their fragile skin. Textile covers can modify biomechanical load transfer by jointly affecting compression
Tino A. Jucker, Simon Annaheim, René M. Rossi   +2 more
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Vine-Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications. [PDF]

Adv Sci (Weinh)
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Wu J, Liu X, Wang F, Ren H, Zhang C, Ren Z, Liu Z, Li J.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Fabrication Routes for Ionic Conducting Fiber Strain Sensors

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Ionic conducting fiber strain sensors (ICFSs) offer compliant, textile‐integrable sensing. Thus far, the commercialization of ICFSs has been constrained by fiber fabrication routes. This review provides a fabrication‐centric analysis of ICFSs correlating processing strategies with material properties and scalability.
Leo John Kershaw, Zhanhong Yang, Anne Ladegaard Skov, Magdalena Skowyra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bone‐Inspired Recyclable Composites for Damage‐Tolerant Circular Materials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Bone‐inspired architected composites are developed by combining osteon‐like reinforcements with a recyclable Elium thermoplastic matrix. The hierarchical architecture redirects cracks and promotes energy dissipation, while enabling recovery of intact, aligned, load‐bearing reinforcement units that retain their original stiffness, revealing a route ...
Alessandro Stagni, Nastaran Bahrami Novin, Luigi Benvenuto, Enrico Lertora, Flavia Libonati   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Solution‐Processed Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Ink Formation, Processing Strategies, Applications, and Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Advanced ink systems for solution‐processed textile triboelectric nanogenerators are systematically summarized, spanning conductive, tribo‐negative, and tribo‐positive layers. By connecting ink chemistry, deposition methods, and device function, the present review reveals the key governing principles of solution development and highlights practical ...
Xinlong Sun, Stephen Beeby
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Strategies for Multistimuli Responsive Dynamic Covalent Materials in Regenerative Medicine

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Multistimuli responsive dynamic covalent materials integrate reversible chemistry with the complex chemical, mechanical, and biochemical cues of regenerative environments. This review highlights chemical strategies based on orthogonal dynamic bonds, multicomponent networks, and hierarchical architectures to regulate mechanics, degradation, and ...
Saurabh Joshi, Matthew B. Baker, Dominik Schauenburg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

NeuroVisio SyncPatch: A Skin‐Conformal Multimodal EMG–Motion Sensing Platform for Quantitative Neuromuscular Rehabilitation and Performance Monitoring

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
NeuroVisio SyncPatch integrates skin‐conformal electromyography (EMG) electrodes with camera‐tracked markers to jointly assess muscle activity and three‐dimensional knee kinematics during rehabilitation. Parallel feedback pathways provide real‐time kinematic guidance during movement and post‐trial neuromuscular feedback.
Bohyung Choi, Yoo‐Jin Jun, Heewon Choee, Kun‐Do Lee, Heesoo Kim, Yu Seok Hwang, Choong Yeon Kim, Seongok Chae, Juhyun Lee, Minkyu Je, Jae‐Woong Jeong, Hyung‐Soon Park   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

BIOTEX-biosensing textiles for personalised healthcare management. [PDF]

, 2010
Textile-based sensors offer an unobtrusive method of continually monitoring physiological parameters during daily activities. Chemical analysis of body fluids, noninvasively, is a novel and exciting area of personalized wearable healthcare systems ...
Mourier, Veronique, Luprano, Jean, J. LUPRANO, Costanzo, Daniele, Chuzel, Cyril, Di Francesco, Fabio, H. DE MONCUIT, Porchet, Jacques-André, K. T. LAU, N. TACCINI, V. MOURIER, I. CHARTIER, Lanier, Thierry, S. COYLE, M. G. TRIVELLA, Lau, King-Tong, C. BINI, DE ROSSI, DANILO EMILIO, Taccini, Nicola, O\u27Gorman, Donal, Bini, Christina, D. DIAMOND, N. MOYNA, Ridofi, Andrea, Revol-Cavalier, Frederic, Convert, Reynald, Coyle, Shirley, Chartier, Isabelle, Paradiso, Rita, Diamond, Dermot, J. A. PORCHET, S. SCHOUMACKER, R. PARADISO, Giovanna Trivella, Maria, De-Moncuit, Henri, A. RIDOLFI, Salvo, Pietro, Schoumacker, Sébastien, T. LANIER, Moyna, Niall, O'Gorman, Donal, De Rossi, Danilo, D. COSTANZO, C. CHUZEL, F. REVOL CHEVALIER   +44 more
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