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© 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

Recently, polymer materials have been at the forefront of other materials in building high-performance flexible electronic skin (e-skin) devices due to conspicuous advantages including excellent mechanical flexibility, good compatibility, and high plasticity. However, most research works just paid considerable attention and effort to the design, construction, and possible application of e-skins that reproduce the tactile perception of the human skin sensory system. Compared with tactile sensing devices, e-skins that aim to imitate the non-contact sensing features in the sensory system of human skin tend to avoid undesired issues such as bacteria spreading and mechanical wear. To further promote the development of e-skins to the human skin sensory system where tactile perception and non-contact sensing complement each other, significant progress and advances have been achieved in the field of polymer materials enabled e-skins for both tactile perception and non-contact sensing applications. In this review, the latest progress in polymer material-based e-skins with regard to tactile, non-contact sensing capabilities and their practical applications are introduced. The fabrication strategies of polymer materials and their role in building high-performance e-skins for tactile and non-contact sensing are highlighted. Furthermore, we also review the research works that integrated the polymer-based tactile and non-contact e-skins into robots and prostheses, smart gloves, and VR/AR devices and addressed some representative problems to demonstrate their suitability in practical applications in human–machine interactions. Finally, the current challenges in the construction of high-performance tactile and non-contact e-skins are highlighted and promising properties in this direction, by taking advantage of the polymer materials, are outlined.

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Title
Advanced polymer materials-based electronic skins for tactile and non-contact sensing applications
Author
Yin, Feifei 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Niu, Hongsen 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Eun-Seong, Kim 1 ; Shin, Young Kee 2 ; Yang, Li 3 ; Nam-Young, Kim 1 

 Department of Electronics Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 
 Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 
 School of Information Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, the People's Republic of China 
Section
REVIEW ARTICLE
Publication year
2023
Publication date
Jul 2023
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
e-ISSN
25673165
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2843153167
Copyright
© 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.