Nature-Inspired Sensors presents and discusses the basic principles and latest developments in nature-inspired sensing and biosensing materials as well as the design and mechanisms for analyzing their potential in multifunctional sensing applications.
The book starts with a comprehensive review of certain fundamental mechanisms in different living creatures, including humans, animals, and plants. It presents and discusses ways for imitating various nature-inspired structural features and their functional properties, such as hierarchical, interlocked, porous, and bristle-like structures and hetero-layered brick-and-mortar structures.
It also highlights the utility of these structures and their properties for sensing functions, which include static coloration, self-cleaning, adhesive, underwater navigation and object detection, electric charge generation, and sensitive olfactory functions for detecting various substances. This is followed by an appraisal of accumulating knowledge and its translation from the laboratory to the point-of-care phase, using selective sensors as well as desktop and wearable artificial sensing devices, for example, electronic noses and electronic skins, in conjunction with AI-assisted data processing and decision-making in the targeted field of application.
In addition, the book offers an insight into the challenges of continuing the development of nature-inspired smart sensing and biosensing technology and their wider availability, which can be substantially improved. It is a valuable reference for graduates, undergraduates, researchers, and working professionals in the fields of chemistry, materials science, and biomedical and environmental science.
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Table of Contents
Section I Principles of nature- Insights from animals for building services
- Plants
- From alalus to sapiens: human evolution and uniqueness
- Principles of nature on human sensing capabilities
- Naturally ordered cracks
- Particle-based islands and nanowire interconnections
- Hierarchical structures
- Stretchability
- Biocompatibility
- Biodegradability
- Natural-inspired self-healing sensors
- Waterproofing function
- Self-cleaning function
- Nucleic acid detection for microbial diagnostics
- Nanozymes
- Peptides
- Aptamers, DNAzymes and aptazymes
- Molecularly imprinted polymers
- Ionic molecules
- Electrochemical sensors
- Chemiresistors
- Colorimetric sensors
- Optical sensors
- Fluorescent sensors
- Pressure tactile sensors
- Medical sensors
- Computation sensors
- Visual-based electronic sensory system
- Auditory based electronic sensory system
- Electronic nose
- Electronic tongues: basics, materials, and applications
- Gustatory-based electronic tongues
- Electronic skin
- Fabrication strategies
- Mass production of nature inspired sensors
- Stand-alone maintenance-free long-life sensory system
- Artificial intelligence-assisted data fusion
- Future perspectives
