Pub Date : 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1038/s44287-025-00195-1
Silvia Conti
An article in Science Advances presents a bioinspired artificial vibrissal system for wind-source tracking in search-and-rescue and environmental monitoring applications.
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Optoelectronics has evolved from fundamental materials to multifunctional integrated systems, yet photon manipulation remains in its early stages. Low-dimensional low-symmetric (LDLS) semiconductors, with atomic thickness and structural anisotropy, enable multidimensional photodetection, including the intensity, wavelength and polarization. Despite success for on-chip integration, challenges in large-scale, high-quality material synthesis and array construction hinder their application in high-resolution focal-plane imaging. In this Perspective, we examine the development of LDLS semiconductors for polarization-sensitive photodetection, outlining the physics of their anisotropic photoresponse. We then discuss key obstacles to large-scale integration in optoelectronic circuits and explore potential solutions. Finally, we highlight research directions to advance the on-chip integration of low-dimensional optoelectronics. This Perspective explores one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) low-dimensional low-symmetric (LDLS) semiconductors for use in polarization-sensitive photodetectors, focusing on their material properties, scalability and commercial applications in imaging, communication, navigation and computing from single device level to complex multifunctional arrays.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-17DOI: 10.1038/s44287-025-00188-0
This Focus issue examines how wearable electronics, leveraging embedded systems, are advancing healthcare, while addressing integration, usability and scalability challenges.
The integration of solar electric vehicles (solar EVs) into energy systems offers a promising solution to achieving sustainable mobility and reducing CO2 emissions. This emerging field leverages advances in photovoltaic technology, EV design, battery innovations and energy management strategies. In this Review, we explore the potential of solar EVs to enhance energy efficiency, promote renewable energy use and contribute to the decarbonization of the power and transport sectors. We discuss the benefits of incorporating photovoltaic systems into EVs, such as reduced grid dependency and increased vehicle autonomy, and examine strategies for optimizing integration, including advancements in battery technology. The Review also addresses the challenges of grid adaptation, policy development and the need for supportive infrastructure, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research and technological innovation. A roadmap for the sustainable integration of solar EVs into energy systems is presented, offering insights into the future of energy-efficient and decarbonized transportation. This Review discusses the integration of solar electric vehicles into energy systems, highlighting their potential to enhance energy efficiency, reduce emissions and support transport decarbonization through innovations in photovoltaics, batteries and energy management, while outlining key challenges and a roadmap for sustainable adoption.
{"title":"Integrating solar-powered electric vehicles into sustainable energy systems","authors":"Thomas Tongxin Li, Alexis Pengfei Zhao, Yuchuan Wang, Shuangqi Li, Jiaqiang Fei, Zhaoyu Wang, Yue Xiang","doi":"10.1038/s44287-025-00181-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44287-025-00181-7","url":null,"abstract":"The integration of solar electric vehicles (solar EVs) into energy systems offers a promising solution to achieving sustainable mobility and reducing CO2 emissions. This emerging field leverages advances in photovoltaic technology, EV design, battery innovations and energy management strategies. In this Review, we explore the potential of solar EVs to enhance energy efficiency, promote renewable energy use and contribute to the decarbonization of the power and transport sectors. We discuss the benefits of incorporating photovoltaic systems into EVs, such as reduced grid dependency and increased vehicle autonomy, and examine strategies for optimizing integration, including advancements in battery technology. The Review also addresses the challenges of grid adaptation, policy development and the need for supportive infrastructure, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research and technological innovation. A roadmap for the sustainable integration of solar EVs into energy systems is presented, offering insights into the future of energy-efficient and decarbonized transportation. This Review discusses the integration of solar electric vehicles into energy systems, highlighting their potential to enhance energy efficiency, reduce emissions and support transport decarbonization through innovations in photovoltaics, batteries and energy management, while outlining key challenges and a roadmap for sustainable adoption.","PeriodicalId":501701,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering","volume":"2 7","pages":"467-479"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-09DOI: 10.1038/s44287-025-00186-2
Ophelia Bu
An article in Advanced Functional Materials presents a conductive hydrogel-based electronic skin with high flexibility, sensitivity and biocompatibility for human health sensing.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-09DOI: 10.1038/s44287-025-00184-4
Stephen P. Lee, Alexander J. Aranyosi, Roozbeh Ghaffari
Wearable sweat-sensing systems offer non-invasive routes for continuous monitoring and screening of metabolic, stress, environmental toxin, and hydration biomarkers in tandem with contextual physiological markers. Although progress has been rapid, translating nascent sweat-sensing technologies from laboratory to commercial adoption requires clinical validation, manufacturing scale up, and support from early customers.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-05DOI: 10.1038/s44287-025-00182-6
Kyeongsu Shi, Kyoungchul Kong
Wearable robots are rapidly being adopted in the medical and healthcare sectors, outpacing other robotics technologies in commercialization. However, early products often fell short in delivering the desired therapeutic outcome. Through its experience, Angel Robotics has identified how to translate from research into successful commercial applications.
{"title":"Recreating human ability with wearable robotics technology","authors":"Kyeongsu Shi, Kyoungchul Kong","doi":"10.1038/s44287-025-00182-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44287-025-00182-6","url":null,"abstract":"Wearable robots are rapidly being adopted in the medical and healthcare sectors, outpacing other robotics technologies in commercialization. However, early products often fell short in delivering the desired therapeutic outcome. Through its experience, Angel Robotics has identified how to translate from research into successful commercial applications.","PeriodicalId":501701,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering","volume":"2 6","pages":"369-370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1038/s44287-025-00175-5
Annalisa Bonfiglio
Wearable bioelectronics are reshaping patient care through seamless, personalized monitoring. As technology is gradually becoming smoothly integrated into our daily life, its success will depend not only on innovation, but also on our ability to ensure responsible integration — balancing performance, usability and equitable access.
{"title":"The future of wearable bioelectronics in healthcare","authors":"Annalisa Bonfiglio","doi":"10.1038/s44287-025-00175-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44287-025-00175-5","url":null,"abstract":"Wearable bioelectronics are reshaping patient care through seamless, personalized monitoring. As technology is gradually becoming smoothly integrated into our daily life, its success will depend not only on innovation, but also on our ability to ensure responsible integration — balancing performance, usability and equitable access.","PeriodicalId":501701,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering","volume":"2 6","pages":"367-368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1038/s44287-025-00178-2
Alexis Pengfei Zhao, Shuangqi Li, Da Xie, Yanjia Wang, Zhengmao Li, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Qianzhi Zhang
Serving as a clean energy carrier, green hydrogen — hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of water — enables low-carbon transportation and facilitates the large-scale integration of intermittent renewable energy sources into the power grid, thereby enhancing system flexibility and decarbonization. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) are key to the integration of green hydrogen into the energy and transport systems. The adoption of HFCVs is being supported by advances in hydrogen production and fuel cell technologies, coupled with the development of hydrogen refuelling infrastructure. However, technological, economic and regulatory barriers to the growth of the hydrogen economy remain. This Review examines the progress and challenges in the integration of HFCVs into the energy and transport systems. We also consider challenges in scaling green hydrogen production using renewable energy and highlight the role of HFCVs in facilitating the integration of green hydrogen and renewable energy into the energy and transport systems. Finally, we provide a roadmap that outlines directions for research, policy and investment to overcome the obstacles to growing the hydrogen economy and harnessing hydrogen as a cornerstone of sustainable energy and transport systems. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) facilitate the integration of green hydrogen and intermittent renewable energy into the energy and transport systems. This Review examines progress and challenges in increasing HFCV adoption and realizing sustainable energy and transport systems based on green hydrogen.
{"title":"Hydrogen as the nexus of future sustainable transport and energy systems","authors":"Alexis Pengfei Zhao, Shuangqi Li, Da Xie, Yanjia Wang, Zhengmao Li, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Qianzhi Zhang","doi":"10.1038/s44287-025-00178-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44287-025-00178-2","url":null,"abstract":"Serving as a clean energy carrier, green hydrogen — hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of water — enables low-carbon transportation and facilitates the large-scale integration of intermittent renewable energy sources into the power grid, thereby enhancing system flexibility and decarbonization. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) are key to the integration of green hydrogen into the energy and transport systems. The adoption of HFCVs is being supported by advances in hydrogen production and fuel cell technologies, coupled with the development of hydrogen refuelling infrastructure. However, technological, economic and regulatory barriers to the growth of the hydrogen economy remain. This Review examines the progress and challenges in the integration of HFCVs into the energy and transport systems. We also consider challenges in scaling green hydrogen production using renewable energy and highlight the role of HFCVs in facilitating the integration of green hydrogen and renewable energy into the energy and transport systems. Finally, we provide a roadmap that outlines directions for research, policy and investment to overcome the obstacles to growing the hydrogen economy and harnessing hydrogen as a cornerstone of sustainable energy and transport systems. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) facilitate the integration of green hydrogen and intermittent renewable energy into the energy and transport systems. This Review examines progress and challenges in increasing HFCV adoption and realizing sustainable energy and transport systems based on green hydrogen.","PeriodicalId":501701,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering","volume":"2 7","pages":"447-466"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-30DOI: 10.1038/s44287-025-00185-3
Giulia Barbareschi, Sakura Yamamura
As digitalization permeates societal interactions to connect people over physical distances, mediated social touch (haptics in human-to-human interaction) remains overlooked despite its high potential in times of social divides and mobility. Disciplinary silos must be broken, and an intercultural approach is needed to integrate touch into digital global societies.
{"title":"Intrinsic interdisciplinary nature of mediated social touch research","authors":"Giulia Barbareschi, Sakura Yamamura","doi":"10.1038/s44287-025-00185-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44287-025-00185-3","url":null,"abstract":"As digitalization permeates societal interactions to connect people over physical distances, mediated social touch (haptics in human-to-human interaction) remains overlooked despite its high potential in times of social divides and mobility. Disciplinary silos must be broken, and an intercultural approach is needed to integrate touch into digital global societies.","PeriodicalId":501701,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering","volume":"2 8","pages":"517-518"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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