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Smartphones for sensing

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Simple, portable analytical devices are entering our daily lives for personal care, clinical analysis, allergen detection in food, and environmental monitoring. Smartphones, as the most popular state-of-art mobile device, have remarkable potential for sensing applications. A growing set of physical-co-chemical sensors have been embedded; these include accelerometers, microphones, cameras, gyroscopes, and GPS units to access and perform data analysis. In this review, we discuss recent work focusing on smartphone sensing including representative electromagnetic, audio frequency, optical, and electrochemical sensors. The development of these capabilities will lead to more compact, lightweight, cost-effective, flexible, and durable devices in terms of their performances.

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简单便携的分析设备正走进我们生活的各个方面,如个人保健、医疗分析、食品安全以及环境监测。智能手机作为最普及的移动设备在分析测试方面最具潜力,现代手机带有越来越多的传感器:加速计、麦克风、摄像头、陀螺仪、定位器等可以方便地获得更多数据和信息。本文综述了移动设备在分析传感方面的应用,包括电磁传感、音频传感、光学传感以及电化学传感等,并总结了该领域的发展趋势。未来的移动传感设备会更加小巧、轻便、便宜、耐用且易携带。

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21205112, 21225524, 21375124, 21475122, and 21127006), the Department of Science and Techniques of Jilin Province (20120308, 201215091, and SYHZ0006), and the Project for Research Equipment Development of Chinese Academy of Sciences (YZ201354, YZ201355).

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    Fenghua Li, Yu Bao, Dandan Wang, Wei Wang & Li Niu

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Li, F., Bao, Y., Wang, D. et al. Smartphones for sensing. Sci. Bull. 61, 190–201 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-015-0954-1

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