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A bio-hybrid tactile sensor incorporating living artificial skin and an impedance sensing array. / Cheneler, David; Buselli , Elisa; Camboni, Domenico et al.
In: Sensors, Vol. 14, No. 12, 10.12.2014, p. 23781-23802.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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T1 - A bio-hybrid tactile sensor incorporating living artificial skin and an impedance sensing array
AU - Cheneler, David
AU - Buselli , Elisa
AU - Camboni, Domenico
AU - Anthony, Carl
AU - Grover, Liam
AU - Adams, Michael J.
AU - Oddo, Calogero
N1 - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
PY - 2014/12/10
Y1 - 2014/12/10
N2 - The development of a bio-hybrid tactile sensor array that incorporates a skin analogue comprised of alginate encapsulated fibroblasts is described. The electrical properties are modulated by mechanical stress induced during contact, and changes are detected by a ten-channel dual-electrode impedance sensing array. By continuously monitoring the impedance of the sensor array at a fixed frequency, whilst normal and tangential loads are applied to the skin surface, transient mechanotransduction has been observed. The results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the preliminary prototype bio-hybrid tactile sensor.
AB - The development of a bio-hybrid tactile sensor array that incorporates a skin analogue comprised of alginate encapsulated fibroblasts is described. The electrical properties are modulated by mechanical stress induced during contact, and changes are detected by a ten-channel dual-electrode impedance sensing array. By continuously monitoring the impedance of the sensor array at a fixed frequency, whilst normal and tangential loads are applied to the skin surface, transient mechanotransduction has been observed. The results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the preliminary prototype bio-hybrid tactile sensor.
KW - bio-hybrid sensors
KW - bioimpedance
KW - haptics
KW - tactile sensors
KW - artificial touch
KW - artificial skin
KW - microfluidics
U2 - 10.3390/s141223781
DO - 10.3390/s141223781
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25615726
VL - 14
SP - 23781
EP - 23802
JO - Sensors
JF - Sensors
SN - 1424-8220
IS - 12
ER -