The rapid growth of the electronics industry and proliferation of electronic materials and
telecommunications technologies has led to the release of a massive amount of untreated …

Abstract Relaxor-PbTiO 3 (PT) based ferroelectric crystals with the perovskite structure have
been investigated over the last few decades due to their ultrahigh piezoelectric coefficients …

Fluorinated polymers constitute a unique class of materials that exhibit a combination of
suitable properties for a wide range of applications, which mainly arise from their …

Over the last two decades, considerable scientific and technological efforts have been
devoted to developing tactile sensing based on a variety of transducing mechanisms, with …

Any device which senses information such as shape, texture, softness, temperature,
vibration or shear and normal forces, by physical contact or touch, can be termed a tactile …

Flexible sensors can be envisioned as promising components for smart sensing
applications, including consumer electronics, robotics, prosthetics, health care, safety …

Haptic perception plays a very important role in surgery. It enables the surgeon to feel
organic tissue hardness, measure tissue properties, evaluate anatomical structures, and …

As opposed to open surgery procedures, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) utilizes small skin
incisions to insert a camera and surgical instruments. MIS has numerous advantages such …

The performance of robotic and prosthetic hands in unstructured environments is severely
limited by their having little or no tactile information compared to the rich tactile feedback of …

Optical micro/nanofibers (MNFs) can be applied for ultrasensitive tactile sensing with fast
response and compact size, which are attractive for restoring tactile information in minimally …