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Open AccessFabrication and characterization of AlN-based flexible piezoelectric pressure sensor integrated into an implantable artificial pancreas
This study reports on the fabrication and characterization of an event detection subsystem composed of a flexible piezoelectric pressure sensor and the electronic interface to be integrated into an implantable...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
PDMS Template Generator for Wearable Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting Applications
Thermoelectric pastes based on Sb, Bi, Te powders were prepared, characterized and used to fabricate a flexible thermoelectric generator (TEG) for wearable harvesting applications. By Finite Element Method (FE...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
UV-Cured Composite Films Containing ZnO Nanostructures: Effect of Filler Shape on Piezoelectric Response
In this work, a facile aqueous sol-gel approach was exploited for synthesizing different ZnO nanostructures; these latter were employed at 4 wt% loading in a UV-curable acrylic system. The piezoelectric behavi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Heat Sink Free Wearable Thermoelectric System with Low Startup Voltage, High Efficiency DC–DC Converter
Thermoelectric energy harvesting represents a promising approach to partially or totally supply ultra-low power wearable devices, by using the human body heat as energy source. Few works were published on wear...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Electrical and Morphological Characterization of TiO2 Electrospun Nanofibers
Titanium oxide nanofibers were successfully prepared via thermal treatment of electrospun composite polymer (PVP)/TiO2 nanofibers. The morphology and crystal structure were characterized by SEM and TEM. It was co...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Odorant Binding Proteins as Sensing Layers for Novel Gas Biosensors: An Impedance Spectroscopy Characterization
In this work, an ab-initio study of the electrical response to odorants of a self-assembled monolayer of a pig OBP immobilized onto a miniaturized Si-substrate equipped with gold interdigitated electrodes (IDE...
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Preparation and Electrical-Functional Characterization of Gas Sensors Based on TiO2 Nanometric Strips Using Impedance Spectroscopy
TiO2 nanometric aligned polycrystalline wires (“strips”) have been prepared by top down patterning of a TiO2 thin film. An electrical-functional characterization of the prepared TiO2 strips based sample was carri...
