Recently, the quest for new highly stretchable transparent tactile sensors with large-scale integration and rapid response time continues to be a great impetus to research efforts to expand the promising applications in human-machine interactions, artificial electronic skins, and smart wearable equipment. Here, a self-powered, highly stretchable, and transparent triboelectric tactile sensor with patterned Ag-nanofiber electrodes for detecting and spatially mapping trajectory profiles is reported. The Ag-nanofiber electrodes demonstrate high transparency (>70%), low sheet resistance (1.68-11.1 Ω □ ), excellent stretchability, and stability (>100% strain). Based on the electrode patterning and device design, an 8 × 8 triboelectric sensor matrix is fabricated, which works well under high strain owing to the effect of the electrostatic induction. Using cross-locating technology, the device can execute more rapid tactile mapping, with a response time of 70 ms. In addition, the object being detected can be made from any commonly used materials or can even be human hands, indicating that this device has widespread potential in tactile sensing and touchpad technology applications.

A soft piezoresistive sensor with its unique characteristics, such as human skin, light weight, and multiple functions, yields a variety of possible practical applications to skin-attachable electronics, human-machine interfaces, and electronic skins. However, conventional filler-matrix piezoresistive sensors often suffer from unsatisfactory sensitivity or insufficient measurement range, as well as significant cross-correlation between out-of-plane pressure and in-plane extension. Here, a stretchable piezoresistive sensor (SPS) is realized by combining a hierarchically porous sensing element with a multimodulus device architecture via a full 3D printing process. As a result, the sensor exhibits high sensitivity (5.54 kPa −1 ), large measurement range (from 10 Pa to 800 kPa), limited cross-correlation, and excellent durability. Meanwhile, benefiting from the porous structure and mechanical mismatch design, which efficiently distributes the stress away from the sensing element, the device experiences only 7% resistance change at 50% stretching. This approach is employed to rapidly program and readily manufacture stylish, all-in-one, functional devices for various applications, demonstrating that the technique is promising for customized stretchable electronics.

Recent progress in black phosphorus-based photonics, electronics, sensors and energy devices has been reviewed.

Humidity sensors have broad applications in health monitoring, environmental protection and human-machine interface, and robotics. Here, we developed a humidity sensor using alkali oxidation method to grow in situ TiO2 nanowires on two-dimensional Ti3C2 MXene. With an order of magnitude larger surface area compared to pure Ti3C2 or TiO2 materials, the urchin-like Ti3C2/TiO2 composite demonstrates a record high sensitivity in a low relative humidity (RH) environment (∼280 pF/% RH from 7% RH to 33% RH). Complex impedance spectroscopy and Schottky junction theory were employed to understand the underlying sensing mechanisms of the Ti3C2/TiO2 composite under various humidity conditions. We demonstrate the application of humidity sensors made with the Ti3C2/TiO2 composite for noncontact detection of the presence of various liquids as well as human fingers.

Solution‐processed black phosphorus quantum‐dot‐based resistive random access memory is demonstrated with tunable characteristics, multilevel data storage, and ultrahigh ON/OFF ratio. Effects of the black phosphorous quantum dots layer thickness and the compliance current setting on resistive switching behavior are systematically studied. Our devices can yield a series of SET voltages and current levels, hence having the potential for practical applications in the flexible electronics industry.