An intelligent artificial throat with sound-sensing ability based on laser induced graphene
By L. Tao, H. Tian, Y. Liu, Zhenyi Ju, Yu Pang, Yuan-Quan Chen, Dan-Yang Wang, Xiang Tian, Jun-Chao Yan, Ning-qin Deng and 2 more. Nature Communications, 2017
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Traditional sound sources and sound detectors are usually independent and discrete in the human hearing range. To minimize the device size and integrate it with wearable electronics, there is an urgent requirement of realizing the functional integration of generating and detecting sound in a single device. Here we show an intelligent laser-induced graphene artificial throat, which can not only generate sound but also detect sound in a single device. More importantly, the intelligent artificial throat will significantly assist for the disabled, because the simple throat vibrations such as hum, cough and scream with different intensity or frequency from a mute person can be detected and converted into controllable sounds. Furthermore, the laser-induced graphene artificial throat has the advantage of one-step fabrication, high efficiency, excellent flexibility and low cost, and it will open practical applications in voice control, wearable electronics and many other areas. The functional integration of sound generation and detection on a single device is required to assist mute people. Here, the authors demonstrate a graphene-based artificial throat capable of detecting and converting diverse throat vibrations into meaningful sound within a single device.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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Citations in the corpus
- Flexible, Stretchable Sensors for Wearable Health Monitoring: Sensing Mechanisms, Materials, Fabrication Strategies and Features (2018, methodology): “For instance, polyimide film has been directly scribed by laser to generate functional patterns with porous graphene, which can be applied as acoustic source and detector in artificial throat [12,149].”