The increasing demands in augmented somatosensory have promoted quantitative sensing to be an emerging need for athletic training/performance evaluation and physical rehabilitation.Neurons for the somatosensory system...The increasing demands in augmented somatosensory have promoted quantitative sensing to be an emerging need for athletic training/performance evaluation and physical rehabilitation.Neurons for the somatosensory system in the human body can capture the information of movements in time but only qualitatively.This work presents an electronic Exo-neuron(EEN)that can spread throughout the limbs for realizing augmented somatosensory by recording both muscular activity and joint motion quantitatively without site constraints or drift instability,even in strenuous activities.Simply based on low-cost liquid metal and clinically used adhesive elastomer,the EEN could be easily fabricated in large areas for limbs.It is thin(~120μm),soft,stretchable(>500%),and conformal and further shows wide applications in sports,rehabilitation,health care,and entertainment.展开更多
基金the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFF1200800,2018YFA0902600,and 2022YFB3804700)Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(KQTD20190929172743294 and JCYJ20200109141231365)+7 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(22234004,21535001,81730051,82102212,61903181,and 32071390)Chinese Academy of Sciences(QYZDJ-SSW-SLH039 and 121D11KYSB20170026)Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Smart Healthcare Engineering(ZDSYS20200811144003009)Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Biomaterials(2022B1212010003)Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program(2019ZT08Y191)Guangdong Major Talent Introduction Project(2019CX01Y196)GBA Research Innovation Institute for Nanotechnology(2020GN0110)Tencent Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE for financial support.
文摘The increasing demands in augmented somatosensory have promoted quantitative sensing to be an emerging need for athletic training/performance evaluation and physical rehabilitation.Neurons for the somatosensory system in the human body can capture the information of movements in time but only qualitatively.This work presents an electronic Exo-neuron(EEN)that can spread throughout the limbs for realizing augmented somatosensory by recording both muscular activity and joint motion quantitatively without site constraints or drift instability,even in strenuous activities.Simply based on low-cost liquid metal and clinically used adhesive elastomer,the EEN could be easily fabricated in large areas for limbs.It is thin(~120μm),soft,stretchable(>500%),and conformal and further shows wide applications in sports,rehabilitation,health care,and entertainment.
