Electronic Whiskers: 3D, Reconfigurable, Multimodal Electronic Whiskers via Directed Air Assembly (Adv. Mater. 11/2018)

An array of 3D air-assembled electronic whiskers is created parallel to or touching a fingertip by Jonathan T. Reeder and co-workers in article number 1706733, which demonstrates the ability to interact with and measure 3D topologies in a similar manner to the human finger. Microscale deflections can be sensed with a response time of <250 μs, enabling a variety of distinct sensing modes including proximity, texture mapping, surface roughness, material stiffness, force, and temperature.

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