Two-stage amplification of an ultrasensitive MXene-based intelligent artificial eardrum.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
We report an artificial eardrum using an acoustic sensor based on two-dimensional MXene (Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<i>x</i>), which mimics the function of a human eardrum for realizing voice detection and recognition. Using MXene with a large interlayer distance and micropyramid polydimethylsiloxane arrays can enable a two-stage amplification of pressure and acoustic sensing. The MXene artificial eardrum shows an extremely high sensitivity of 62 kPa<sup>-1</sup> and a very low detection limit of 0.1 Pa. Notably, benefiting from the ultrasensitive MXene eardrum, the machine-learning algorithm for real-time voice classification can be realized with high accuracy. The 280 voice signals are successfully classified for seven categories, and a high accuracy of 96.4 and 95% can be achieved by the training dataset and the test dataset, respectively. The current results indicate that the MXene artificial intelligent eardrum shows great potential for applications in wearable acoustical health care devices.