Revealing bending and force in a soft body through a plant root inspired approach

Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research

(2015) Deepak Trivedi et al.   Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Highly Stretchable and Sensitive Strain Sensor Based on Silver Nanowire–Elastomer Nanocomposite

(2014) Morteza Amjadi et al.   ACS Nano

Flexible Three-Axial Force Sensor for Soft and Highly Sensitive Artificial Touch

(2014) Lucie Viry et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Polymer-Waveguide-Based Flexible Tactile Sensor Array for Dynamic Response

(2014) Sungryul Yun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Simple and rapid micropatterning of conductive carbon composites and its application to elastic strain sensors

(2014) Jeong-Ho Kong et al.   CARBON

Unobtrusive Sensing and Wearable Devices for Health Informatics

(2014) Ya-Li Zheng et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

A Novel Growing Device Inspired by Plant Root Soil Penetration Behaviors

(2014) Ali Sadeghi et al.   PLoS One

An ultra-sensitive resistive pressure sensor based on hollow-sphere microstructure induced elasticity in conducting polymer film

(2014) Lijia Pan et al.   Nature Communications

A wearable and highly sensitive pressure sensor with ultrathin gold nanowires

(2014) Shu Gong et al.   Nature Communications

Highly Stretchable Piezoresistive Graphene-Nanocellulose Nanopaper for Strain Sensors

(2013) Chaoyi Yan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Soft robots

(2013) Barry Trimmer   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Shape Tracking of Planar Hyper-Flexible Beams via Embedded PVDF Deflection Sensors

(2013) Yoel Shapiro et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

A force of nature: molecular mechanisms of mechanoperception in plants

(2013) Gabriele B. Monshausen et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Stretchable tri-axis force sensor using conductive liquid

(2013) Kentaro Noda et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics

(2013) Sangbae Kim et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Flexible polymer transistors with high pressure sensitivity for application in electronic skin and health monitoring

(2013) Gregor Schwartz et al.   Nature Communications

Super-stretchable, Transparent Carbon Nanotube-Based Capacitive Strain Sensors for Human Motion Detection

(2013) Le Cai et al.   Scientific Reports

The challenges ahead for bio-inspired 'soft' robotics

(2012) Rolf Pfeifer et al.   COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

Highly Conductive and Transparent PEDOT:PSS Films with a Fluorosurfactant for Stretchable and Flexible Transparent Electrodes

(2011) Michael Vosgueritchian et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Highly Deformable Nanostructured Elastomeric Electrodes With Improving Conductivity Upon Cyclical Stretching

(2011) Gabriele Corbelli et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Graphene and nanostructured MnO2 composite electrodes for supercapacitors

(2011) Qian Cheng et al.   CARBON

Skin-like pressure and strain sensors based on transparent elastic films of carbon nanotubes

(2011) Darren J. Lipomi et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A stretchable carbon nanotube strain sensor for human-motion detection

(2011) Takeo Yamada et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A non-differential elastomer curvature sensor for softer-than-skin electronics

(2011) C Majidi et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Ultra-thin conductive free-standing PEDOT/PSS nanofilms

(2011) Francesco Greco et al.   Soft Matter

Flexible organic transistors and circuits with extreme bending stability

(2010) Tsuyoshi Sekitani et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Highly sensitive flexible pressure sensors with microstructured rubber dielectric layers

(2010) Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Fabrication of Graphene/Polyaniline Composite Paper via In Situ Anodic Electropolymerization for High-Performance Flexible Electrode

(2009) Da-Wei Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Ca2+ Regulates Reactive Oxygen Species Production and pH during Mechanosensing in Arabidopsis Roots

(2009) G. B. Monshausen et al.   PLANT CELL

Feeling green: mechanosensing in plants

(2009) Gabriele B. Monshausen et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Metal Ion Implantation for the Fabrication of Stretchable Electrodes on Elastomers

(2008) Samuel Rosset et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Ultrathin Films of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Electronics and Sensors: A Review of Fundamental and Applied Aspects

(2008) Qing Cao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Direction sensitive bending sensors based on multi-wall carbon nanotube/epoxy nanocomposites

(2008) Malte H G Wichmann et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY