这本书研究了不同类型的柔性传感器的制造，以及它们在能量收集应用中的后续实现。一系列技术，包括3D打印、软光刻、激光烧蚀、微收缩打印、丝网打印、喷墨打印等，已被用于形成具有各种特性的柔性传感器。基于其性能，这些传感器已被用于生物医学、环境和医疗保健应用。这些柔性传感器的质量取决于用于合成原型导电部件的某些类型的纳米材料。这些纳米材料基于不同的尺寸和形状，其质量取决于结晶度、形状和尺寸等特定因素。这些基于纳米技术的柔性传感器的主要用途之一是收集能量，其中形成了纳米发电机和纳米采集器，分别在小型和中型水平上产生和储存能量。机械能和热能是基于成型原型产生的压电、热电和摩擦电效应获得的。这项工作强调了这些行业的融合，以突出这些类型传感器的本质及其预期应用。
Flexible Sensors for Energy-Harvesting Applications
This book investigates the fabrication of different types of flexible sensors and their subsequent implementation for energy-harvesting applications. A range of techniques, including 3D printing, soft lithography, laser ablation, micro-contract printing, screen-printing, inkjet printing and others have been used to form the flexible sensors with varied characteristics. These sensors have been used for biomedical, environmental and healthcare applications on the basis of their performances. The quality of these flexible sensors has depended on certain types of nanomaterials that have been used to synthesize the conductive parts of the prototypes. These nanomaterials have been based on different sizes and shapes, whose quality varied on the basis of certain factors like crystallinity, shapes and sizes. One of the primary utilization of these nanotechnology-based flexible sensors has been the harvesting of energy where nano-generators and nano-harvesters have been formed to generate and store energy, respectively, on small and moderate magnitudes. Mechanical and thermal energies have been harvested on the basis of the piezoelectric, pyroelectric and triboelectric effects created by the formed prototypes. The work highlights the amalgamation of these sectors to spotlight the essence of these types of sensors and their intended application.
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