Can a fingernail become an intelligent tactile interface?
A vibrissae-inspired #Neuromorphic device integrates sensing, spike encoding, and synaptic processing for efficient recognition of textures, contours, and writing trajectories.

Can a fingernail become an intelligent tactile interface?
A vibrissae-inspired #Neuromorphic device integrates sensing, spike encoding, and synaptic processing for efficient recognition of textures, contours, and writing trajectories.
Humidity sensing is progressing from detection toward intelligent perception.
This perspective examines sensing materials, integrated nodes, and #AI-enabled analysis for health monitoring, human–computer interaction, and smart agriculture.
Living organisms could expand what miniature robots can achieve.
This review examines biohybrid miniature robots, from #Fabrication and driving mechanisms to applications in #DrugDelivery, disease treatment, sensing, and rescue.
Bio-inspired design offers new routes to high-performance #Ceramics.
This review examines six structural strategies in ceramic #3Dprinting and how multiscale topology can improve mechanical properties and environmental adaptability.
This review examines HfO₂-based devices and 3D arrays, highlighting BEOL-compatible #crystallization, conformal ALD, phase and defect control, cross-layer stress, and layer variability as key challenges for stackable integration.
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#TissueEngineering
Key limitations in #MetalAM may be addressed through #HybridManufacturing.
This review explores how subtractive, formative, and energy field-assisted approaches regulate microstructures, residual stress, and component performance.
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#WoundHealing #
Recreating native skin #Vascularization remains challenging.
This review examines #biomaterials and #3Dbioprinting strategies for vascularized skin models and grafts, alongside routes toward greater structural and functional fidelity.
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#TissueEngineering
Emulating human-like sensory perception in #Neuromorphic devices is challenging.
This review explores multimodal architectures, conductance-based adaptation, Hebbian learning & spike-timing-dependent plasticity for intelligent perception.
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On #ManufacturingDay, #IJEM highlights research advancing extreme manufacturing through precision engineering, additive manufacturing, intelligent systems, and micro- and nanoscale technologies that shape next-generation production.
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A wearable #Plasmonic #SERS patch combines a stable gold nanoparticle–agarose network with dual-track #DeepLearning to resolve abundant and trace sweat metabolites, advancing quantitative personalized metabolic monitoring.
Inspired by lepidopteran stealth, a hierarchical lattice couples photonic crystals and perforated resonant structures to integrate mechanical protection with electromagnetic and acoustic wave control in lightweight systems.
Entanglement-enhanced GelMA inks enable rapid solid-to-solid vat-#Photopolymerization of robust, high-fidelity hydrogels, supporting complex biomimetic and prevascularized constructs for regenerative medicine.
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#AdvancedMaterials #BiomedicalEngineering
#Piezoelectric #Actuators must increasingly combine multiple performance capabilities for #ExtremeManufacturing.
This review examines strategies to coordinate scale, speed, force, degrees of freedom and accuracy in intelligent actuation.
Learn how a novel "print-and-mineralize" strategy integrates projection-based 3D #Bioprinting with in situ microbial mineralization to fabricate bone-mimetic scaffolds that support advanced #TissueRegeneration.
How can #Hydrogel #Sensors overcome environmental instability & #Fabrication hurdles to achieve next-gen #FlexibleElectronics?
This review examines processing, material regulation and #InterfaceEngineering strategies for robust sensing.
Monolithic 3D integration of #2Dmaterials can vertically unite logic, memory, sensing and #Neuromorphic functions, positioning CMOS–2D hybrid architectures as a practical route toward compact, multifunctional #AI hardware.
Geometry adaptive photothermal coherence #Tomography combines structured-light scanning and photothermal #Imaging to reconstruct 3D morphology and assess subsurface defect depth in additively manufactured metals.
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#IndustrialMetrology #OpticalImaging
Can artificial sensory hardware reproduce region-dependent pain perception?
HfOₓ-based #SynapticTransistors emulate differential nociceptor sensitivity and sensitization, supporting pain-like feedback for #Neuroprosthetics and #eSkin.
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Scaling #Electrocatalytic propylene production requires linking catalyst innovation with system engineering. This perspective explores MEA design, multiphase transport and intelligent #Manufacturing for industrial stacks.
Nanoscale defects can evade conventional optical detection.
Anisotropic topological charge migration #microscopy combined with vortex #illumination and OAM filtering enables sensitive 3D defect detection and label-free #Bioimaging.