Sensing and Computing with Almost-every-day Materials: Basic Concepts and Case Studies
Maria Lis, Tomasz Mazur, Krzysztof Mech, Agnieszka Podborska, Ramesh Sivasamy and Konrad Szaciłowski
A major challenge for our uncertain future is to develop such electronic devices and sensors that will be based on commonly available materials, will be easy to use, and will consume little energy. The presented work describes the concepts of using biomaterials for applications in such areas as healthcare and biomedical devices, energy storage and harvesting, or security and authentication. The first part of the presented work contains a literature review of the devices based on biomaterials developed so far. It shows not only the advantages of such devices but also the technological challenges that need to be overcome. The second part describes a system based on cadmium sulphide – multiwalled carbon nanotubes, which can be successfully used to detect alkali metal cations in aqueous solutions.
Keywords: papertronics, biodegradable memristors, reservoir computing, neuromorphic architecture