A synthetic cellular ion channel for ultrasensitive mechanotransduction
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Biomimetics has emerged as a burgeoning area in the field of deformable tactile sensor skins that has led innovations in material designing and device structure manipulation with the aim of imitating multimodal sensing features of human skin intelligently. Herein, inspired by the sophisticated physiological sensing mechanism of living cells, we describe a uniquely designed visco-poroelastic, iontronic pump consisting of artificial ions confined into polymeric network matrix or well-designed hybrid interface. Novel bottom-up strategy employed here resulted into supramolecular polymer networks through non-covalent interactions between poroelastic artificial ions and viscoelastic polymer chains, which endows effective iontronic pumping under mechanical stimuli and electronic field, simultaneously. This design for visco-poroelastic, iontronic, and ion confined artificial mechanoreceptors allows for ultrasensitive mechanosensing over a wide spectrum of pressure (Pa~150kPa).