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Yu HP, Zhu YJ. Guidelines derived from biomineralized tissues for design and construction of high-performance biomimetic materials: from weak to strong. Chem Soc Rev 2024; 53:4490-4606. [PMID: 38502087 DOI: 10.1039/d2cs00513a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/20/2024]
Abstract
Living organisms in nature have undergone continuous evolution over billions of years, resulting in the formation of high-performance fracture-resistant biomineralized tissues such as bones and teeth to fulfill mechanical and biological functions, despite the fact that most inorganic biominerals that constitute biomineralized tissues are weak and brittle. During the long-period evolution process, nature has evolved a number of highly effective and smart strategies to design chemical compositions and structures of biomineralized tissues to enable superior properties and to adapt to surrounding environments. Most biomineralized tissues have hierarchically ordered structures consisting of very small building blocks on the nanometer scale (nanoparticles, nanofibers or nanoflakes) to reduce the inherent weaknesses and brittleness of corresponding inorganic biominerals, to prevent crack initiation and propagation, and to allow high defect tolerance. The bioinspired principles derived from biomineralized tissues are indispensable for designing and constructing high-performance biomimetic materials. In recent years, a large number of high-performance biomimetic materials have been prepared based on these bioinspired principles with a large volume of literature covering this topic. Therefore, a timely and comprehensive review on this hot topic is highly important and contributes to the future development of this rapidly evolving research field. This review article aims to be comprehensive, authoritative, and critical with wide general interest to the science community, summarizing recent advances in revealing the formation processes, composition, and structures of biomineralized tissues, providing in-depth insights into guidelines derived from biomineralized tissues for the design and construction of high-performance biomimetic materials, and discussing recent progress, current research trends, key problems, future main research directions and challenges, and future perspectives in this exciting and rapidly evolving research field.
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- Han-Ping Yu
- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, P. R. China.
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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Li Y, Ping H, Xie Q, Yang G, Xu J, Zhong M, Wang K. Fluorapatite nanorod arrays with enamel-like bundle structure regulated by iron ions. RSC Adv 2023; 13:28112-28119. [PMID: 37746340 PMCID: PMC10517139 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra03652a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/17/2023] [Indexed: 09/26/2023] Open
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Pigmented rodent tooth enamel is mainly composed of parallel hydroxyapatite nanorods and a small amount of organic matrix. These hydroxyapatite nanorods tend to be carbonated and contain traces of iron, fluorine, and magnesium. The pigmented rodent tooth enamel which contains trace iron is stronger and more resistant to acid corrosion than unpigmented rodent enamel, which could provide inspiration for the preparation and synthesis of high performance and corrosion resistant artificial materials. However, the regulatory role and mechanical enhancement of iron ions in enamel growth are unclear. Here, we synthesized enamel-like fluorapatite nanorod arrays in vitro using a mineralization technique at room-temperature. To investigate the regulatory effect of iron ions on the fluorapatite nanorod arrays (FAP-Fe), the phosphate solution is slowly transfused dropwise in the calcium ion solution, and different concentrations of iron ions are added to the calcium ion solution in advance. We demonstrated that fluorapatite nanorod arrays (FAP) can be epitaxially grown from amorphous calcium phosphate nanoparticles and iron ions can improve the microstructure of FAP nanorod arrays and obtain the same enamel bundle structure as the natural enamel. Moreover, high concentration of iron ions can inhibit the crystallization of fluorapatite. The FAP-Fe nanorod arrays controlled by 0.02 mM Fe3+ have good mechanical properties. Their hardness is 1.34 ± 0.02 GPa and Young's modulus is 65.3 ± 0.4 GPa, respectively. This work is helpful to understand the role of trace elements in natural enamel in the regulation of enamel formation and to provide a theoretical foundation for the preparation of high strength artificial composites, which can play a greater role in the fields of biological alternative materials, anti-oil coating, oil/water separation, anti-bioadhesion and so on.
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- Yidi Li
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting, Jianghan University Wuhan 430056 P. R. China
- Hubei Longzhong Laboratory Xiangyang 441000 Hubei P. R. China
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- Hubei Longzhong Laboratory Xiangyang 441000 Hubei P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan 430070 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting, Jianghan University Wuhan 430056 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting, Jianghan University Wuhan 430056 P. R. China
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- Ordnance NCO Academy Army Engineering University Wuhan 430070 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan 430070 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan 430070 P. R. China
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Wei J, Pan F, Ping H, Yang K, Wang Y, Wang Q, Fu Z. Bioinspired Additive Manufacturing of Hierarchical Materials: From Biostructures to Functions. RESEARCH (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 2023; 6:0164. [PMID: 37303599 PMCID: PMC10254471 DOI: 10.34133/research.0164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Throughout billions of years, biological systems have evolved sophisticated, multiscale hierarchical structures to adapt to changing environments. Biomaterials are synthesized under mild conditions through a bottom-up self-assembly process, utilizing substances from the surrounding environment, and meanwhile are regulated by genes and proteins. Additive manufacturing, which mimics this natural process, provides a promising approach to developing new materials with advantageous properties similar to natural biological materials. This review presents an overview of natural biomaterials, emphasizing their chemical and structural compositions at various scales, from the nanoscale to the macroscale, and the key mechanisms underlying their properties. Additionally, this review describes the designs, preparations, and applications of bioinspired multifunctional materials produced through additive manufacturing at different scales, including nano, micro, micro-macro, and macro levels. The review highlights the potential of bioinspired additive manufacturing to develop new functional materials and insights into future directions and prospects in this field. By summarizing the characteristics of natural biomaterials and their synthetic counterparts, this review inspires the development of new materials that can be utilized in various applications.
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- Jingjiang Wei
- Institute for Advanced Materials Deformation and Damage from Multi-Scale, Institute for Advanced Study,
Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry,
University of Basel, Basel 4058, Switzerland
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing,
Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
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- Institute for Advanced Materials Deformation and Damage from Multi-Scale, Institute for Advanced Study,
Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, P. R. China
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering,
Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, P. R. China
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- Institute for Advanced Materials Deformation and Damage from Multi-Scale, Institute for Advanced Study,
Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing,
Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
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Biomimetic Construction of the Enamel-like Hierarchical Structure. Chem Res Chin Univ 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s40242-023-2336-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Zhao H, Liu S, Yang X, Guo L. Role of Inorganic Amorphous Constituents in Highly Mineralized Biomaterials and Their Imitations. ACS NANO 2022; 16:17486-17496. [PMID: 36255102 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c05262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A highly mineralized biomaterial is one kind of biomaterial that usually possesses a high content of crystal minerals and hierarchical microstructure, exhibiting excellent mechanical properties to support the living body. Recent studies have revealed the presence of inorganic amorphous constituents (IAC) either during the biomineralization process or in some mature bodies, which heavily affects the formation and performance of highly mineralized biomaterials. These results are surprising given the preceding intensive research into the microstructure design of these materials. Herein, we highlight the role of IAC in highly mineralized biomaterials. We focused on summarizing works demonstrating the presence or phase transformation of IAC and discussed in detail how IAC affects the formation and performance of highly mineralized biomaterials. Furthermore, we described some imitations of highly mineralized biomaterials that use IAC as the synthetic precursor or final strengthening phase. Finally, we briefly summarized the role of IAC in biomaterials and provided an outlook on the challenges and opportunities for future IAC and IAC-containing bioinspired materials researches.
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- Hewei Zhao
- School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijng 100191, China
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- School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijng 100191, China
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- School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijng 100191, China
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- School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijng 100191, China
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Xu J, Shi H, Luo J, Yao H, Wang P, Li Z, Wei J. Advanced materials for enamel remineralization. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:985881. [PMID: 36177189 PMCID: PMC9513249 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.985881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Dental caries, a chronic and irreversible disease caused by caries-causing bacteria, has been listed as one of the three major human diseases to be prevented and treated. Therefore, it is critical to effectively stop the development of enamel caries. Remineralization treatment can control the progression of caries by inhibiting and reversing enamel demineralization at an early stage. In this process, functional materials guide the deposition of minerals on the damaged enamel, and the structure and hardness of the enamel are then restored. These remineralization materials have great potential for clinical application. In this review, advanced materials for enamel remineralization were briefly summarized, furthermore, an outlook on the perspective of remineralization materials were addressed.
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- Jiarong Xu
- School of Stomatology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- School of Stomatology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Province Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Nanchang, China
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- School of Stomatology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Province Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Nanchang, China
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- School of Stomatology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- School of Stomatology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Province Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Nanchang, China
- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- School of Stomatology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Province Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Nanchang, China
- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- *Correspondence: Zhihua Li, ; Junchao Wei,
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- School of Stomatology, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Jiangxi Province Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Nanchang, China
- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- *Correspondence: Zhihua Li, ; Junchao Wei,
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Li Y, Kong Y, Xue B, Dai J, Sha G, Ping H, Lei L, Wang W, Wang K, Fu Z. Mechanically Reinforced Artificial Enamel by Mg 2+-Induced Amorphous Intergranular Phases. ACS NANO 2022; 16:10422-10430. [PMID: 35802535 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c00688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Amorphous intergranular phases in mature natural tooth enamel are found to provide better adhesion and could dramatically affect their mechanical performance as a structure reinforcing phase. This study successfully synthesized an amorphous intergranular phase enhanced fluorapatite array controlled by Mg2+ (FAP-M) at room temperature. Furthermore, atom probe tomography (APT) observation presents that Mg2+ is enriched at grain boundaries during the assembly of enamel-like fluorapatite arrays, leading to the formation of intergranular phases of Mg-rich amorphous calcium phosphate (Mg-ACP). APT results also demonstrated that the segregation of Mg2+ caused the chemical gradient in nanocrystalline attachment and realignment under the drive of inherent surface stress. These results indicate that the amorphous intergranular phases served like glue to connect each nanorod to reinforce the enamel-like arrays. Therefore, the as-received FAP-M artificial enamel exhibits excellent mechanical properties, with hardness and Young's modulus of 2.90 ± 0.13 GPa and 67.9 ± 3.4 GPa, which were ∼8.3 and 2.2 times higher than those of FAP arrays without controlled by Mg2+, respectively.
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- Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 200 Xiaolingwei Street, Nanjing 210094, PR China
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- Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 200 Xiaolingwei Street, Nanjing 210094, PR China
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Li Y, Ping H, Lei L, Xie J, Zou Z, Wang W, Wang K, Fu Z. Room-temperature growth of fluorapatite/CaCO 3 heterogeneous structured composites inspired by human tooth. RSC Adv 2022; 12:11084-11089. [PMID: 35425040 PMCID: PMC8992358 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra00374k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 03/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Organisms can synthesize heterogeneous structures with excellent mechanical properties through mineralization, the most typical of which are teeth. The tooth is an extraordinarily resilient bi-layered material that is composed of external enamel perpendicular to the tooth surface and internal dentin parallel to the tooth surface. The synthesis of enamel-like heterostructures with good mechanical properties remains an elusive challenge. In this study, we applied a biomimetic mineralization method to grow fluorapatite/CaCO3 (FAP/CaCO3) heterogeneous structured thin films that mimic their biogenic counterparts found in teeth through a three-step pathway: coating a polymer substrate, growing a layered calcite film, and mineralization of a fluorapatite columnar array on the calcite layer. The synthetic heterostructure composites combine well and exhibit good mechanical properties comparable to their biogenic counterparts. The FAP/CaCO3 heterogeneous structured composite exhibits excellent mechanical properties, with a hardness and Young's modulus of 1.99 ± 0.02 GPa and 47.5 ± 0.6 GPa, respectively. This study provides a reasonable new idea for unique heterogeneous structured materials designed at room temperature. Fluorapatite/CaCO3 thin films were synthesized by mimicking their biogenic counterparts found in teeth using a biomimetic mineralization method. The synthetic heterostructure composites combine well and exhibit excellent mechanical properties.![]()
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- Yidi Li
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology 122 Luoshi Road Wuhan P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology 122 Luoshi Road Wuhan P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology 122 Luoshi Road Wuhan P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology 122 Luoshi Road Wuhan P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology 122 Luoshi Road Wuhan P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology 122 Luoshi Road Wuhan P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology 122 Luoshi Road Wuhan P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology 122 Luoshi Road Wuhan P. R. China
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Wang D, Zhang J, Ma G, Fang Y, Liu L, Wang J, Sun T, Zhang C, Meng X, Wang K, Han Z, Niu S, Ren L. A Selective-Response Bioinspired Strain Sensor Using Viscoelastic Material as Middle Layer. ACS NANO 2021; 15:19629-19639. [PMID: 34855345 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c06843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Flexible strain sensors have an irreplaceable role in critical and emerging fields, such as electronic skins, flexible robots, and prosthetics. Although numerous efforts have been made to improve sensor sensitivity to meet specific application scenarios, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is an extremely critical and non-negligible indicator, which takes into account higher sensitivity, meaning that they can also detect the noise signals with high sensitivity. Coincidentally, scorpions with ultrasensitive vibration sensilla also face such a dilemma. Here, it is found that the scorpion ingeniously uses the viscoelastic material in front of its slit sensilla to realize efficient preprocessing of the signal. Its mechanism is that the loss factor of materials changes with frequency, affecting energy storage and transmission. Inspired by this ingenious strategy, a bioinspired strain sensor insensitive to a low strain rate was designed using a two-step template transfer method. As a result, its relative change in resistance reached 110% under the same strain (0.3197%) but with different strain rates (0.1 Hz and ∼20 Hz). The noncontact vibration experiments also show different responses to low-frequency vibration and high-frequency impact. Moreover, it can also be used as a typical flexible strain sensor. Under the tensile state, it has a gauge factor (GF) as high as 4596 upon 0.6% strain, and the response time is 140 ms. Therefore, it is expected that this strain sensor will be used in many important ultraprecision measurement fields, especially when the measured signal is small.
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- Dakai Wang
- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
- School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Robotics, Soochow University, Suzhou 215021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
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