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ReviewMicromachines2020

Advances in Liquid Metal-Enabled Flexible and Wearable Sensors.

Yi Ren, Xuyang Sun, Jing Liu

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Review in Micromachines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Gallium-Based Liquid Metals: From Properties to Applications.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  5. Multifunctional Liquid Metal for Biomimicry Application.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  11. Phase Transition Liquid Metal Enabled Emerging Biomedical Technologies and Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
    Review
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  16. Wearable Sensors for Respiration Monitoring: A Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
  17. Stretchable Sensors: Novel Human Motion Monitoring Wearables.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yi RenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2223-0486
Xuyang SunBeijing Key Lab of CryoBiomedical Engineering and Key Lab of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Jing LiuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0844-5296

Funding

the NSFC Key Project No.91748206, No. 51890893
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensors are core elements to directly obtain information from surrounding objects for further detecting, judging and controlling purposes. With the rapid development of soft electronics, flexible sensors have made considerable progress, and can better fit the objects to detect and, thus respond to changes more sensitively. Recently, as a newly emerging electronic ink, liquid metal is being increasingly investigated to realize various electronic elements, especially soft ones. Compared to conventional soft sensors, the introduction of liquid metal shows rather unique advantages. Due to excellent flexibility and conductivity, liquid-metal soft sensors present high enhancement in sensitivity and precision, thus producing many profound applications. So far, a series of flexible and wearable sensors based on liquid metal have been designed and tested. Their applications have also witnessed a growing exploration in biomedical areas, including health-monitoring, electronic skin, wearable devices and intelligent robots etc. This article presents a systematic review of the typical progress of liquid metal-enabled soft sensors, including material innovations, fabrication strategies, fundamental principles, representative application examples, and so on. The perspectives of liquid-metal soft sensors is finally interpreted to conclude the future challenges and opportunities.

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applicationarraysfabricationliquid metalprinciplesoft sensors

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PMID32075215
PMCPMC7074621

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