Fiber‐based structures are highly desirable for wearable electronics that are expected to be
light‐weight, long‐lasting, flexible, and conformable. Many fibrous structures have been …

Diabetes is highly prevalent throughout the world and imposes a high economic cost on
countries at all income levels. Foot ulceration is one devastating consequence of diabetes …

Triboelectricity has attracted much attention for its potential applications in harvesting
mechanical energy by triboelectric nanogenerators, whose output performance is dominated …

The advances and fast spread of mobile devices and technologies, we witness today, have
extended its advantages over medical and health practice supported by mobile devices …

Velostat is a low-cost, low-profile electrical bagging material with piezoresistive properties,
making it an attractive option for in-socket pressure sensing. The focus of this research was …

Conspectus Fiber-based electronic and photonic devices have the most desired human-
friendly features, such as being soft, ubiquitous, flexible, stretchable, light, and permeable …

Synthetic materials and biomaterials with elastic moduli lower than 10 MPa are generally
considered as soft materials. Research studies on soft materials have been boosted due to …

The distribution of interface stresses between the residual limb and prosthetic socket of a
transtibial amputee has been considered as a direct indicator of the socket quality fit and …

Rich and accurate tactile perceptive capability is important for both humans and robots. Soft
materials exhibit unique characteristics to construct high‐performance tactile sensors such …

This paper presents a review of the development of optical fibers made of multiple materials,
particularly including silica glass, soft glass, polymers, hydrogels, biomaterials …