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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Data-driven inverse design of flexible pressure sensors.

Zhiguang Liu, Minkun Cai, Shenda Hong, Junli Shi, Sai Xie, Chang Liu, Huifeng Du, James D Morin, Gang Li, Liu Wang and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  1. Customizing Tactile Sensors via Machine Learning-Driven Inverse Design.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  10. Data-driven inverse design of flexible pressure sensors.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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Zhiguang Liu *Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7230-3612
Minkun Cai *Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1875-783X
Shenda Hong *National Institute of Health Data Science, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7521-5127
Junli Shi *Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Sai XieDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Chang LiuDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Huifeng DuDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
James D MorinDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Gang LiDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0009-0002-8282-3715
Liu WangDepartment of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, 230027 Hefei, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7014-9976
Hong WangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Ke TangGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Computation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Nicholas X FangDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0001-5713-629X
Chuan Fei GuoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4513-3117

Funding

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory Program 2021B1212040001National Natural Science Foundation of China 52073138National Natural Science Foundation of China 62102008Science Technology and Innovation Committee of Shenzhen Municipality CYJ20210324120202007Shenzhen Sci-Tech Fund KYTDPT20181011104007
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Abstract

Artificial skins or flexible pressure sensors that mimic human cutaneous mechanoreceptors transduce tactile stimuli to quantitative electrical signals. Conventional trial-and-error designs for such devices follow a forward structure-to-property routine, which is usually time-consuming and determines one possible solution in one run. Data-driven inverse design can precisely target desired functions while showing far higher productivity, however, it is still absent for flexible pressure sensors because of the difficulties in acquiring a large amount of data. Here, we report a property-to-structure inverse design of flexible pressure sensors, exhibiting a significantly greater efficiency than the conventional routine. We use a reduced-order model that analytically constrains the design scope and an iterative "jumping-selection" method together with a surrogate model that enhances data screening. As an exemplary scenario, hundreds of solutions that overcome the intrinsic signal saturation have been predicted by the inverse method, validating for a variety of material systems. The success in property design on multiple indicators demonstrates that the proposed inverse design is an efficient and powerful tool to target multifarious applications of flexible pressure sensors, which can potentially advance the fields of intelligent robots, advanced healthcare, and human-machine interfaces.

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flexible electronicsflexible pressure sensorinverse designlinear responsemachine learning

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PMID38954542
PMCPMC11252744

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