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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33716-9
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [62174152, 61888102, 61874111, 62022079]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences [2020115]
- Strategic Priority Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA16021100]
- Science and Technology Development Plan of Jilin Province [20210101168JC]
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This research demonstrates that the intrinsic anisotropy of tellurium nanowires can be utilized to modulate the electronic structure and piezoelectric polarization, enabling the realization of VR interaction and neuro-reflex applications. The design of a multi-functional pressure and temperature sensor based on tellurium nanowires allows determination of material hardness and thermal conductivity through a simple touch.
Anisotropy control of the electronic structure in inorganic semiconductors is an important step in developing devices endowed with multi-function. Here, we demonstrate that the intrinsic anisotropy of tellurium nanowires can be used to modulate the electronic structure and piezoelectric polarization and decouple pressure and temperature difference signals, and realize VR interaction and neuro-reflex applications. The architecture design of the device combined with self-locking effect can eliminate dependence on displacement, enabling a single device to determine the hardness and thermal conductivity of materials through a simple touch. We used a bimodal Te-based sensor to develop a wearable glove for endowing real objects to the virtual world, which greatly improves VR somatosensory feedback. In addition, we successfully achieved stimulus recognition and neural-reflex in a rabbit sciatic nerve model by integrating the sensor signals using a deep learning technique. In view of in-/ex-vivo feasibility, the bimodal Te-based sensor would be considered a novel sensing platform for a wide range application of metaverse, AI robot, and electronic medicine. The accumulation of single-function sensors can increase the complexity of virtual reality systems. Here, Shen et al. exploit the intrinsic anisotropy of tellurium nanowires to design a multi-function pressure and temperature sensor, which can be used as tactile experience in the virtual world.
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