Skin-inspired self-healing semiconductive touch panel based on novel transparent stretchable hydrogels

Journal of Materials Chemistry A ◽

10.1039/d1ta01892b ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Xingkui Guo ◽

Fan Yang ◽

Wenbo Liu ◽

Chuang Han ◽

Yujiao Bai ◽

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Keyword(s):

Significant Role ◽

Self Healing ◽

Next Generation ◽

Touch Panel ◽

Touch Panels

As the increasing importance of human-machine interactions, stretchability, biocompatibility and self-healing behavior will play a more significant role in the next-generation touch panels so as to allow integration with a...

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Reversible Mechanochemistry Enabled Autonomous Sustaining of Robustness of Polymers—An Example of Next Generation Self-healing Strategy

Chinese Journal of Polymer Science ◽

10.1007/s10118-021-2532-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ming-Xuan Li ◽

Min-Zhi Rong ◽

Ming-Qiu Zhang

Keyword(s):

Self Healing ◽

Next Generation

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Multi-Touch Interaction Generation Device by Spatiotemporally Switching Electrodes

Electronics ◽

10.3390/electronics10121475 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

pp. 1475

Author(s):

Masahiro Okamoto ◽

Kazuya Murao

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

High Accuracy ◽

Conductive Ink ◽

Control Board ◽

Touch Panel ◽

Electrode Size ◽

Touch Input ◽

Touch Interaction ◽

Multiple Electrodes ◽

Touch Panels

With the spread of devices equipped with touch panels, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops, the opportunity for users to perform touch interaction has increased. In this paper, we constructed a device that generates multi-touch interactions to realize high-speed, continuous, or hands-free touch input on a touch panel. The proposed device consists of an electrode sheet printed with multiple electrodes using conductive ink and a voltage control board, and generates eight multi-touch interactions: tap, double-tap, long-press, press-and-tap, swipe, pinch-in, pinch-out, and rotation, by changing the capacitance of the touch panel in time and space. In preliminary experiments, we investigated the appropriate electrode size and spacing for generating multi-touch interactions, and then implemented the device. From the evaluation experiments, it was confirmed that the proposed device can generate multi-touch interactions with high accuracy. As a result, tap, press-and-tap, swipe, pinch-in, pinch-out, and rotation can be generated with a success rate of 100%. It was confirmed that all the multi-touch interactions evaluated by the proposed device could be generated with high accuracy and acceptable speed.

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Self-healing and stretchable conductor based on embedded liquid metal patterns within imprintable dynamic covalent elastomer

Journal of Materials Chemistry C ◽

10.1039/d1tc05087g ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Xiaoliang Chen ◽

Peng Sun ◽

Hongmiao Tian ◽

Xiangming Li ◽

Chunhui Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Liquid Metal ◽

Electronic Devices ◽

Electronic Systems ◽

Self Healing ◽

Next Generation ◽

Critical Elements ◽

Stretchable Conductors ◽

Stretchable Conductor

Flexible and stretchable conductors are critical elements for constructing soft electronic systems and have recently attracted tremendous attention. Next generation electronic devices call for self-healing conductors that can mimic the...

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Triple non-covalent dynamic interactions enabled a tough and rapid room temperature self-healing elastomer for next-generation soft antennas

Journal of Materials Chemistry A ◽

10.1039/d0ta06613c ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (47) ◽

pp. 25073-25084

Author(s):

Pengxiang Si ◽

Fan Jiang ◽

Qingsha S. Cheng ◽

Geoffrey Rivers ◽

Hongjie Xie ◽

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Keyword(s):

Room Temperature ◽

Self Healing ◽

Next Generation ◽

Dynamic Interactions

Triple non-covalent dynamic interactions enabled a tough and rapid room temperature self-healing elastomer based on a colloidal complex.

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Listen up! Phatic thresholds and sound interface design

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/1461444820944851 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 146144482094485

Author(s):

Hadar Levy-Landesberg

Keyword(s):

Reverse Engineering ◽

Significant Role ◽

Interface Design ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Next Generation ◽

Engineering Approach ◽

Sound Media ◽

Human Ear ◽

Digital Sound

This article points to the long-standing and significant role that the sound interface plays in shaping the ways we attend to media by considering its phatic function. Employing a reverse engineering approach, the article consists of an analysis of historical transformations in the regimen of attention produced by sound media to date, followed by discourse analyses of scientific and industry communities of digital sound interface design. Introducing the term “phatic alignment” to describe how media and humans are arranged in space and adjusted to communicate with one another, this article points to the increasing hold of the digital sound interface over the user’s attention and identifies the premises affording this trend. The article argues that in abstracting the human ear as an automated “phatic threshold” that regulates the user’s attention, digital sound interface design situates the user in constant attentiveness to media and sets the stage for next-generation communication technologies.

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Contamination Improvement of Touch Panel and Color Filter Production Processes of Lean Six Sigma

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app9091893 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (9) ◽

pp. 1893 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Chia-Nan Wang ◽

Po-Chih Chiu ◽

I-Fang Cheng ◽

Ying-Fang Huang

Keyword(s):

Six Sigma ◽

Lean Six Sigma ◽

Color Filter ◽

Improvement Rate ◽

Touch Panel ◽

Touch Sensor ◽

Average Defect ◽

Component Manufacturing ◽

One Year ◽

Touch Panels

Color filter (CF) and touch panel (or touch sensor (TS)) are important components for optoelectronic materials and component manufacturing. Due to the cut-throat world of market in the manufacturing, the processes of color filters are similar to touch sensors. The case invested in the production of touch panels in 2009. After a long period of quality improvement, the problem of contamination pollution still accounts for ~30% of the total variation. In addition to the external problem, there is also the fail of communication caused by dirt or peeling. Therefore, the case was established to improve the dirt defect by setting up Lean Six Sigma project, and the project goal was to reduce the proportion to 0.18%. After three months of improvement and three months of continuous observation, the abnormal proportion of pollution decreased from 0.35% of the overall average defect loss to 0.13% (the improvement rate reached 63%). It is estimated that the entire product can generate 3 million (USD) of performance for the case in one year. It is also possible to increase the customer’s satisfaction and the company’s technical competitiveness by improving yield and achieving the continuous improvement of objectives.

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