Sustainable P3HB:ZnO Composite Piezoelectric Nanofibers for AI‐Driven Gait Monitoring
Milad Razbin, Kexin Ruan, Danish Tahir, Xuan Li, Qing Li, Hala Zreiqat, Fariba Dehghani, Shuying Wu · 2026
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Razbin and colleagues made a degradable sensing fibre in 2026 for monitoring how people walk. The fibre mixes a plant-based plastic, P3HB, with zinc oxide particles, giving a piezoelectric material, which makes voltage when pressed. The team used an artificial neural network plus a genetic search to tune the mix before testing it.
The search picked a zinc oxide share of just over four percent as best. The tuned fibres reached a voltage sensitivity far above the plain plastic and stayed stable over a thousand pressing cycles. After six weeks the fibres had lost about 38 percent of their mass as they broke down, yet still produced a signal. Linked to a multi-channel reader, they fed an artificial intelligence demo that recognised gait patterns.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Milad Razbin, Kexin Ruan, Danish Tahir, Xuan Li, Qing Li, Hala Zreiqat, Fariba Dehghani, Shuying Wu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |