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Shantanu Chakrabartty, a researcher at Michigan State University, has worked for almost a decade on self-powered sensors for health and usage monitoring. These micro-sized sensors can self-diagnose any catastrophic failure. Once fully packaged, he hopes the sensors will become an integral part of any smart structure, whether it is civil, mechanical or biomechanical.
They may be attached to or embedded inside bridges, pavements, vehicles, rotating parts and biomedical implants. They can autonomously sense, compute and store cumulative statistics of strain rates, without the aid of batteries.Image credit: Shantanu Chakrabartty, Michigan State University
