Advanced Morphological and Material Engineering for High‐Performance Interfacial Iontronic Pressure Sensors

Abstract High‐performance flexible pressure sensors are crucial for applications such as wearable electronics, interactive systems, and healthcare technologies. Among these, iontronic pressure sensors have garnered particular attention due to their superior sensitivity, enabled by the giant capacita...

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Main Authors: Fengling Zhuo, Zhi Ding, Xi Yang, Fengjian Chu, Yulu Liu, Zhuoqing Gao, Hao Jin, Shurong Dong, Xiaozhi Wang, Jikui Luo
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Published: Wiley 2025-02-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202413141
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author Fengling Zhuo
Zhi Ding
Xi Yang
Fengjian Chu
Yulu Liu
Zhuoqing Gao
Hao Jin
Shurong Dong
Xiaozhi Wang
Jikui Luo
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Zhi Ding
Xi Yang
Fengjian Chu
Yulu Liu
Zhuoqing Gao
Hao Jin
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Jikui Luo
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description Abstract High‐performance flexible pressure sensors are crucial for applications such as wearable electronics, interactive systems, and healthcare technologies. Among these, iontronic pressure sensors have garnered particular attention due to their superior sensitivity, enabled by the giant capacitance variation of the electric double layer (EDL) at the ionic‐electronic interface under deformation. Key advancements, such as incorporating microstructures into ionic layers and employing diverse materials, have significantly improved sensor properties like sensitivity, accuracy, stability, and response time. This review highlights advancements in flexible EDL pressure sensors, focusing on structural designs and material engineering. These strategies are tailored to optimize key metrics such as sensitivity, detection limit, linearity, stability, response speed, hysteresis, transparency, wearability, selectivity, and multifunctionality. Key fabrication techniques, including micropatterning and externally assisted methods, are reviewed, along with strategies for sensor comparison and guidelines for selecting appropriate sensors. Emerging applications in healthcare, environmental and aerodynamic sensing, human–machine interaction, robotics, and machine learning‐assisted intelligent sensing are explored. Finally, this review discusses the challenges and future directions for advancing EDL‐based pressure sensors.
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spelling doaj-art-5cb407ff62644356a4e86929719ccbd82025-08-20T02:30:35ZengWileyAdvanced Science2198-38442025-02-01128n/an/a10.1002/advs.202413141Advanced Morphological and Material Engineering for High‐Performance Interfacial Iontronic Pressure SensorsFengling Zhuo0Zhi Ding1Xi Yang2Fengjian Chu3Yulu Liu4Zhuoqing Gao5Hao Jin6Shurong Dong7Xiaozhi Wang8Jikui Luo9College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 ChinaCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 ChinaCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 ChinaCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 ChinaResearch Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering Ningbo University Ningbo 315211 ChinaCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 ChinaCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 ChinaCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 ChinaCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 ChinaCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 ChinaAbstract High‐performance flexible pressure sensors are crucial for applications such as wearable electronics, interactive systems, and healthcare technologies. Among these, iontronic pressure sensors have garnered particular attention due to their superior sensitivity, enabled by the giant capacitance variation of the electric double layer (EDL) at the ionic‐electronic interface under deformation. Key advancements, such as incorporating microstructures into ionic layers and employing diverse materials, have significantly improved sensor properties like sensitivity, accuracy, stability, and response time. This review highlights advancements in flexible EDL pressure sensors, focusing on structural designs and material engineering. These strategies are tailored to optimize key metrics such as sensitivity, detection limit, linearity, stability, response speed, hysteresis, transparency, wearability, selectivity, and multifunctionality. Key fabrication techniques, including micropatterning and externally assisted methods, are reviewed, along with strategies for sensor comparison and guidelines for selecting appropriate sensors. Emerging applications in healthcare, environmental and aerodynamic sensing, human–machine interaction, robotics, and machine learning‐assisted intelligent sensing are explored. Finally, this review discusses the challenges and future directions for advancing EDL‐based pressure sensors.https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202413141flexible EDL pressure sensormorphological engineeringsensing performancefabrication techniquesadvanced applications
spellingShingle Fengling Zhuo
Zhi Ding
Xi Yang
Fengjian Chu
Yulu Liu
Zhuoqing Gao
Hao Jin
Shurong Dong
Xiaozhi Wang
Jikui Luo
Advanced Morphological and Material Engineering for High‐Performance Interfacial Iontronic Pressure Sensors
Advanced Science
flexible EDL pressure sensor
morphological engineering
sensing performance
fabrication techniques
advanced applications
title Advanced Morphological and Material Engineering for High‐Performance Interfacial Iontronic Pressure Sensors
title_full Advanced Morphological and Material Engineering for High‐Performance Interfacial Iontronic Pressure Sensors
title_fullStr Advanced Morphological and Material Engineering for High‐Performance Interfacial Iontronic Pressure Sensors
title_full_unstemmed Advanced Morphological and Material Engineering for High‐Performance Interfacial Iontronic Pressure Sensors
title_short Advanced Morphological and Material Engineering for High‐Performance Interfacial Iontronic Pressure Sensors
title_sort advanced morphological and material engineering for high performance interfacial iontronic pressure sensors
topic flexible EDL pressure sensor
morphological engineering
sensing performance
fabrication techniques
advanced applications
url https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202413141
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