Flexible and wearable pressure sensors have attracted extensive attention in domains, such as electronic skin, medical monitoring and human machine interaction. However, developing a pressure sensor with high sensitivity, mechanical...

In recent years, flexible pressure sensors have become an important part of soft electronics due to their tactile sensing abilities. However, manufacturing pressure sensors with high sensing performance and excellent...

This paper presents a microwave microfluidic biosensor for monitoring blood glucose levels. The glucose sensor is a triple ring microstrip patch antenna integrated with a biomimetic microfluidic device capable of measuring a fixed volume of glucose solution. The sensor was utilized to detect 50–500 mg/dL glucose solutions. The interaction of the glucose solution with the electromagnetic field on the patch's surface influences both the resonance frequency and the magnitude of reflection coefficient. The results indicate that the microfluidic device can reduce experimental error and enhance the correlation between glucose concentration, resonant frequency, and reflection coefficient. Finally, the microfluidic sensor had a sensitivity of 0.25 MHz/(mg/dL), a detection limit as low as 7.7 mg/dL, and correlation coefficients of resonance frequency and reflection coefficient with a glucose concentration of 0.996 and 0.984, respectively. The experiment on the sensor's stability verifies the sensor's excellent stability and rapid response (~ 150 ms). Consequently, the device can be used to differentiate the concentration of glucose solutions, as well as to detect blood glucose levels at an early stage.

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We introduce 0.5 wt% PbTe nanoparticles into the Bi0.4Sb1.6Te3 matrix and possess an ultralow lattice thermal conductivity of 0.26 W m−1 K−1 at 429 K and an excellent ZT value of 1.6 at 482 K as well as a high average ZTave of 1.38 at 300–500 K.