MXene Functionalized,Highly Breathable and Sensitive Pressure Sensors with Multi-Layered Porous Structure

Breathable, flexible, and highly sensitive pressure sensors have drawn increasing attention due to their potential in wearable electronics for body-motion monitoring, human-machine interfaces, etc. However, current pressure sensors are usually assembled with polymer substrates or encapsulation layers, thus causing discomfort during wearing (i.e., low air/vapor permeability, mechanical mismatch) and restricting their applications. A breathable and flexible pressure sensor is reported with nonwoven fabrics as both the electrode (printed with MXene interdigitated electrode) and sensing (coated with MXene/silver nanowires) layers via a scalable screen-printing approach. Benefiting from the multi-layered porous structure, the sensor demonstrates good air permeability with high sensitivity (770.86–1434.89 kPa⁻¹), a wide sensing range (0–100 kPa), fast response/recovery time (70/81 ms), and low detection limit (≈1 Pa). Particularly, this sensor can detect full-scale human motion (i.e., small-scale pulse beating and large-scale walking/running) with high sensitivity, excellent cycling stability, and puncture resistance. Additionally, the sensing layer of the pressure sensor also displays superior sensitivity to humidity changes, which is verified by successfully monitoring human breathing and spoken words while wearing a sensor-embedded mask. Given the outstanding features, this breathable sensor shows promise in the wearable electronic field for body health monitoring, sports activity detection, and disease diagnosis.     

Solid Ink Laser Patterning for High-Resolution Information Labels with Supervised Learning Readout

Tagging, tracking, or validation of products are often facilitated by inkjet-printed optical information labels. However, this requires thorough substrate pretreatment, ink optimization, and often lacks in printing precision/resolution. Herein, a printing method based on laser-driven deposition of solid polymer ink that allows for printing on various substrates without pretreatment is demonstrated. Since the deposition process has a precision of <1 µm, it can introduce the concept of sub-positions with overlapping spots. This enables high-resolution fluorescent labels with comparable spot-to-spot distance of down to 15 µm (444,444 spots cm⁻²) and rapid machine learning-supported readout based on low-resolution fluorescence imaging. Furthermore, the defined thickness of the printed polymer ink spots can be used to fabricate multi-channel information labels. Additional information can be stored in different fluorescence channels or in a hidden topography channel of the label that is independent of the fluorescence.     

In Situ Electrical Network Activation and Deactivation in Short Carbon Fiber Composites via 3D Printing

Prior studies on carbon-filler based, conductive polymer composites have mainly investigated how conductive filler morphology and concentration can tailor a material's electrical conductivity and overlooks the effects of filler alignment due to the difficulty to control and quickly quantify the filler alignment. Here, direct ink write 3D printing's unique ability is utilized to control carbon fiber alignment with a single process parameter, velocity ratio, to instantaneously activate or deactivate the electrical network in composites. Maximum electrical conductivity is achieved by randomly aligning carbon fibers that enhances the chance of direct fiber-to-fiber contact and, thus, activating the electrical network. However, aligning the fibers by increasing the velocity ratio disrupts the electrical network by minimizing fiber-to-fiber contact that resulted in a drastic decrease in electrical conductivity by as much as five orders of magnitude in both short and long carbon fiber composites. With this study, this study demonstrates that electrically conductive or insulative composites can be fabricated sequentially with a single ink. This novel ability to instantaneously control the electrical conductivity of carbon fiber reinforced composites allow to directly embed conductive pathways into designs to 3D print multifunctional composites that are capable of localized heating and self-sensing.     

物理域中针对人脸识别系统的对抗样本攻击方法

对抗样本攻击揭示了人脸识别系统可能存在不安全性和被攻击的方式。现有针对人脸识别系统的对抗样本攻击大多在数字域进行,然而从最近文献检索的结果来看,越来越多的研究开始关注如何能把带有对抗扰动的实物添加到人脸及其周边区域上,如眼镜、贴纸、帽子等,以实现物理域的对抗攻击。这类新型的对抗样本攻击能够轻易突破市面上现有绝大部分人脸活体检测方法的拦截,直接影响人脸识别系统的结果。尽管已有不少文献提出数字域的对抗攻击方法,但在物理域中复现对抗样本的生成并不容易且成本高昂。本文提出一种可从数字域方便地推广到物理域的对抗样本生成方法,通过在原始人脸样本中添加特定形状的对抗扰动来攻击人脸识别系统,达到误导或扮演攻击的目的。主要贡献包括:利用人脸关键点根据脸型构建特定形状掩膜来生成对抗扰动;设计对抗损失函数,通过训练生成器实现在数字域的对抗样本生成;设计打印分数损失函数,减小打印色差,在物理域复现对抗样本的生成,并通过模拟眼镜佩戴、真实场景光照变化等方式增强样本,改善质量。实验结果表明,所生成的对抗样本不仅能在数字域以高成功率攻破典型人脸识别系统VGGFace10,且可方便、大量地在物理域复现。本文方法揭示了人脸识别系统的潜在安全风险,为设计人脸识别系统的防御体系提供了很好的帮助。     

增材制造技术在电机中的应用综述

增材制造技术(即3D打印)因具有高设计自由度、高材料利用率、高成形效率和精度等优势,逐渐成为高效轻质高功率密度电机设计与制造的研究热点。该文旨在对3D打印电机的性能及其应用作系统性综述。首先,对3D打印电机的发展脉络进行简要概括。其次,分别对3D打印铁心、磁钢、绕组,以及散热和机械支撑结构的研究现状进行总结,并与传统工艺加工的样件进行性能对比。随后,介绍了适用于增材制造的结构设计方法——拓扑优化。最后,根据目前的研究情况归纳了3D打印电机未来的发展趋势和面临的挑战。     

Inkjet‐Printed Lithium–Sulfur Microcathodes for All‐Printed,Integrated Nanomanufacturing

Improved thin‐film microbatteries are needed to provide appropriate energy‐storage options to power the multitude of devices that will bring the proposed “Internet of Things” network to fruition (e.g., active radio‐frequency identification tags and microcontrollers for wearable and implantable devices). Although impressive efforts have been made to improve the energy density of 3D microbatteries, they have all used low energy‐density lithium‐ion chemistries, which present a fundamental barrier to miniaturization. In addition, they require complicated microfabrication processes that hinder cost‐competitiveness. Here, inkjet‐printed lithium–sulfur (Li–S) cathodes for integrated nanomanufacturing are reported. Single‐wall carbon nanotubes infused with electronically conductive straight‐chain sulfur (S@SWNT) are adopted as an integrated current‐collector/active‐material composite, and inkjet printing as a top‐down approach to achieve thin‐film shape control over printed electrode dimensions is used. The novel Li–S cathodes may be directly printed on traditional microelectronic semicoductor substrates (e.g., SiO₂) or on flexible aluminum foil. Profilometry indicates that these microelectrodes are less than 10 µm thick, while cyclic voltammetry analyses show that the S@SWNT possesses pseudocapacitive characteristics and corroborates a previous study suggesting the S@SWNT discharge via a purely solid‐state mechanism. The printed electrodes produce ≈800 mAh g^?1 S initially and ≈700 mAh g^?1 after 100 charge/discharge cycles at C/2 rate.     

Microscale Electro‐Hydrodynamic Cell Printing with High Viability

Cell printing has gained extensive attentions for the controlled fabrication of living cellular constructs in vitro. Various cell printing techniques are now being explored and developed for improved cell viability and printing resolution. Here an electro‐hydrodynamic cell printing strategy is developed with microscale resolution (<100 µm) and high cellular viability (>95%). Unlike the existing electro‐hydrodynamic cell jetting or printing explorations, insulating substrate is used to replace conventional semiconductive substrate as the collecting surface which significantly reduces the electrical current in the electro‐hydrodynamic printing process from milliamperes (>0.5 mA) to microamperes (<10 µA). Additionally, the nozzle‐to‐collector distance is fixed as small as 100 µm for better control over filament deposition. These features ensure high cellular viability and normal postproliferative capability of the electro‐hydrodynamically printed cells. The smallest width of the electro‐hydrodynamically printed hydrogel filament is 82.4 ± 14.3 µm by optimizing process parameters. Multiple hydrogels or multilayer cell‐laden constructs can be flexibly printed under cell‐friendly conditions. The printed cells in multilayer hydrogels kept alive and gradually spread during 7‐days culture in vitro. This exploration offers a novel and promising cell printing strategy which might benefit future biomedical innovations such as microscale tissue engineering, organ‐on‐a‐chip systems, and nanomedicine.     

3D printing system: an innovation for small-scale manufacturing in home settings? – early adopters of 3D printing systems in China

This study investigates Chinese consumers’ adoption of the innovative 3D printing systems for small-scale manufacturing in home settings. Empirical studies were conducted in a survey with 256 participants. The number of significant determinants that affect an individual’s decision to adopt 3D printing systems has been identified by applying a model that integrates the Technology Acceptance Model and Innovation Diffusion Theory. A number of moderation effects of demographic variables (e.g. gender, design background) on the association between motivational variables and participants’ adoption have also been analysed with factor analysis, structural equation modelling and hierarchical regression. Our results shed some light on the characteristics of early adopters of home 3D printing systems in China. This study contributes to the early understanding of Chinese consumers’ adoption of innovative 3D printing systems.     

3D成型SiO_2/PVA水凝胶支架的摩擦行为

利用3D成型技术,通过先成型后冷冻交联2步法制备不同孔隙率的SiO_2/聚乙烯醇(PVA)水凝胶支架,研究了SiO_2/PVA水凝胶支架的重复摩擦行为,分析了SiO_2/PVA水凝胶支架的摩擦原理。结果表明:SiO_2/PVA水凝胶支架能够保持三维贯通的立体结构,最大孔隙率可达42.3%。低摩擦速率(10-6~10-3 m/s)下,SiO_2/PVA水凝胶支架摩擦力稍高于块体SiO_2/PVA水凝胶,且随孔隙率的提高而稍有降低;而高摩擦速率(10-2~1m/s)下,SiO_2/PVA水凝胶支架和块体SiO_2/PVA水凝胶的摩擦力相近,孔隙率对支架摩擦力影响不明显。低正压力载荷(0.3kPa)下,SiO_2/PVA水凝胶支架重复摩擦性优于块体SiO_2/PVA水凝胶,这与支架结构能保持稳定的水润滑层相关。