International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Volume. 3, Issue 4, 42001(2021)

Conformal manufacturing of soft deformable sensors on the curved surface

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  • 1Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, PA 16802, United States of America
  • 2James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding & Joining, Flexible Printed Electronics Technology Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, People’s Republic of China
  • 4Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, Pennsylvania State University-Erie, The Behrend College, Erie, PA 16563, United States of America
  • 5Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, PA 16802, United States of America
  • 6Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, PA 16802, United States of America
  • 7Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, PA 16802, United States of America
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    Health monitoring of structures and people requires the integration of sensors and devices on various 3D curvilinear, hierarchically structured, and even dynamically changing surfaces. Therefore, it is highly desirable to explore conformal manufacturing techniques to fabricate and integrate soft deformable devices on complex 3D curvilinear surfaces. Although planar fabrication methods are not directly suitable to manufacture conformal devices on 3D curvilinear surfaces, they can be combined with stretchable structures and the use of transfer printing or assembly methods to enable the device integration on 3D surfaces. Combined with functional nanomaterials, various direct printing and writing methods have also been developed to fabricate conformal electronics on curved surfaces with intimate contact even over a large area. After a brief summary of the recent advancement of the recent conformal manufacturing techniques, we also discuss the challenges and potential opportunities for future development in this burgeoning field of conformal electronics on complex 3D surfaces.

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    Paper Information

    Category: Topical Review

    Received: Feb. 21, 2021

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Feb. 25, 2022

    The Author Email: (Huanyu.Cheng@psu.edu)

    DOI:10.1088/2631-7990/ac1158

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