Sensing of joint and spinal bending or stretching via a retractable and wearable badge reel

Human motions often contain information that is useful for orthopedic/neural disease diagnosis, rehabilitation, and prevention. Here, the authors show a badge-reel-like stretch sensing device with a grating-structured triboelectric nanogenerator for joints/spine bending or stretching sensing.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chengyu Li, Di Liu, Chaoqun Xu, Ziming Wang, Sheng Shu, Zhuoran Sun, Wei Tang, Zhong Lin Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23207-8