Salvatore Puce

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Salvatore Puce is a leading researcher in the field of advanced materials and soft sensor technologies, with a primary focus on auxetic mechanical metamaterials and flexible electronics. His work bridges materials science and engineering to develop next-generation strain sensors for wearable health monitoring, exoskeletons, and robotics. Puce’s major contributions include the development of a flexible carbon nanotubes-based auxetic sponge electrode for strain sensors, a pioneering innovation that leverages the unique negative Poisson’s ratio properties of auxetics to enhance sensor sensitivity and compliance. This work, published in 2020, has garnered 29 citations, underscoring its significance in the field. More recently, Puce has advanced the modeling and development of an auxetic foam-based multimodal capacitive strain gauge (2023, 10 citations), which exploits the decoupling of normal and transversal deformations in auxetics to provide superior feedback for soft robotics and wearable systems. His research is notable for its practical application of metamaterial principles to create highly responsive, durable, and comfortable sensors. Puce’s work is instrumental in pushing the boundaries of soft, flexible, and intelligent materials, making him a key figure in the evolution of human-machine interfaces and biomedical devices.