Ultrasensitive and highly repeatable pen ink decorated cuprammonium rayon (cupra) fabrics for multifunctional sensors

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (34) ◽  
pp. 16556-16565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyi Bi ◽  
Lei Hou ◽  
Hang Zhao ◽  
Lin Zhu ◽  
Yinxiang Lu

Flexible pen ink/cupra fabrics (PCFs) innovatively prepared by a dip-coating method exhibit ultrasensitive and highly repeatable strain/liquid sensing performance.

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Jung ◽  
Kyungkuk Jung ◽  
Byunggeon Park ◽  
Jaehyuk Choi ◽  
Donghwan Kim ◽  
...  

Abstract We present a highly elastic and wearable piezoresistive strain sensor based on three-dimensional, micro-porous graphene-coated polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) sponge suitable for being attached on human skin. The proposed strain sensors are simply fabricated by a sugar templating process and dip coating method based graphene ink in a facile and cost effective manner. The fabricated graphene-coated PDMS sponge shows highly stable mechanical properties in various tensile stress–strain test. A graphene thin film coated onto the backbone of PDMS sponges is used as the sensing materials of piezoresisitve strain sensors. The changes in resistance of the devices are highly stable, repeatable, and reversible when various strain is applied. Furthermore, the strain sensors show excellent sensing performance under different strain rate and mechanically robustness enough to be worked stably under repeated loads without any degradation.


RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (30) ◽  
pp. 17713-17723
Author(s):  
Tran Thi Ngoc Hoa ◽  
Nguyen Van Duy ◽  
Chu Manh Hung ◽  
Nguyen Van Hieu ◽  
Ho Huu Hau ◽  
...  

Ag2O nanoparticles decorated on the surface of on-chip growth SnO2 nanowires by a dip-coating method possessed excellent sensing performance for H2S gas.


2013 ◽  
Vol 543 ◽  
pp. 121-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Xiang Zhou ◽  
Lu Gan ◽  
Qiu Yun Fu ◽  
Shu Ping Gong ◽  
Huan Liu ◽  
...  

The macroporous SnO2thin film has been successfully prepared on alumina substrate with printed Ag interdigital electrodes by sol-gel dip-coating method. The carbonaceous polysaccharide microspheres synthesized by hydrothermal method were used as pore-forming agent. The SnO2thin film prepared without using carbon microspheres was also synthesized for comparison. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy were taken to study the micro-characteristics of samples. The influences of operating temperature, gas concentration and structure feature on the H2S sensing performance of SnO2thin film samples were systematically studied. Compared with SnO2thin film prepared without using carbon microspheres, the macroporous SnO2thin film showed a considerably reduced recovery time and good response-recovery properties.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 2045-2056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Chesler ◽  
Cristian Hornoiu ◽  
Susana Mihaiu ◽  
Cristina Vladut ◽  
Jose Maria Calderon Moreno ◽  
...  

A series of SnO2–ZnO composite nanostructured (thin) films with different amounts of SnO2 (from 0 to 50 wt %) was prepared and deposited on a miniaturized porous alumina transducer using the sol–gel and dip coating method. The transducer, developed by our research group, contains Au interdigital electrodes on one side and a Pt heater on the other side. The sensing films were characterized using SEM and AFM techniques. Highly toxic and flammable gases (CO, CO2, CH4, and C3H8) were tested under lab conditions (carrier gas was dry air) using a special gas sensing cell developed by our research group. The gas concentrations varied between 5 and 2000 ppm and the optimum working temperatures were in the range of 210–300 °C. It was found that the sensing performance was influenced by the amount of oxide components present in the composite material. Improved sensing performance was achieved for the ZnO (98 wt %)–SnO2 (2 wt %) composite as compared to the sensors containing only the pristine oxides. The sensor response, cross-response and recovery characteristics of the analyzed materials are reported. The high sensitivity (R S = 1.21) to low amounts of CO (5 ppm) was reported for the sensor containing a composite sensitive film with ZnO (98 wt %)–SnO2 (2 wt %). This sensor response to CO was five times higher as compared to its response to CO2, CH4, and C3H8, thus the sensor is considered to be selective for CO under these test conditions.


2000 ◽  
Vol 628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuki Nakanishi ◽  
Souichi Kumon ◽  
Kazuyuki Hirao ◽  
Hiroshi Jinnai

ABSTRACTMacroporous silicate thick films were prepared by a sol-gel dip-coating method accompanied by the phase separation using methyl-trimethoxysilane (MTMS), nitric acid and dimethylformamide (DMF) as starting components. The morphology of the film varied to a large extent depending on the time elapsed after the hydrolysis until the dipping of the coating solution. On a glass substrate, the films prepared by early dipping had inhomogeneous submicrometer-sized pores on the surface of the film. At increased reaction times, relatively narrow sized isolated macropores were observed and their size gradually decreased with the increase of reaction time. On a polyester substrate, in contrast, micrometer-sized isolated spherical gel domains were homogeneously deposited by earlier dippings. With an increase of reaction time, the volume fraction of the gel phase increased, then the morphology of the coating transformed into co-continuous gel domains and macropores, and finally inverted into the continuous gel domains with isolated macropores. The overall morphological variation with the reaction time was explained in terms of the phase separation and the structure freezing by the forced gelation, both of which were induced by the evaporation of methanol during the dipping operation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1115 (1) ◽  
pp. 012028
Author(s):  
P T P Aryanti ◽  
G Trilaksono ◽  
A Hotmaida ◽  
M A Afifah ◽  
F P Pratiwi ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Gözde Çelebi Efe ◽  
Elif Yenilmez ◽  
İbrahim Altinsoy ◽  
Serbülent Türk ◽  
Cuma Bindal

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Selin Sunay ◽  
Onder Pekcan ◽  
Saziye Ugur

Steady-state fluorescence (SSF) technique in conjunction with UV-visible (UVV) technique and atomic force microscope (AFM) was used for studying film formation from TiO2covered nanosized polystyrene (PS) latex particles (320 nm). The effects of film thickness and TiO2content on the film formation and structure properties of PS/TiO2composites were studied. For this purpose, two different sets of PS films with thicknesses of 5 and 20 μm were prepared from pyrene-(P-) labeled PS particles and covered with various layers of TiO2using dip-coating method. These films were then annealed at elevated temperatures above glass transition temperature () of PS in the range of 100–280°C. Fluorescence emission intensity, from P and transmitted light intensity, were measured after each annealing step to monitor the stages of film formation. The results showed that film formation from PS latexes occurs on the top surface of PS/TiO2composites and thus developed independent of TiO2content for both film sets. But the surface morphology of the films was found to vary with both TiO2content and film thickness. After removal of PS, thin films provide a quite ordered porous structure while thick films showed nonporous structure.


2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 611-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Liu ◽  
Zhen Ge ◽  
Wenguo Zhang ◽  
Yunjun Luo

Due to their unique physicochemical properties, polysilazanes exhibit excellent performance when combined with some resin matrixes, which had drawn great research attention. In this article, polyurethane (PU) was firstly prepared by polytetrahydrofuran glycol, isophorone diisocyanate, and 1,4-butanediol as main materials. Then, the prepared PU was blended with polysilazane by mixing the two solutions together, which was cured to films via dip-coating method at room temperature. The structure, thermal stability, and surface properties of the composite coatings were investigated by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The results demonstrated that after modification with polysilazane, the heat resistance, hydrophobicity, and mechanical property of the PU coatings were improved. When the content of polysilazane was 6 wt%, the mechanical property of the composite films was optimized, with a maximum tensile strength of 25.7 MPa and elongation at break of 797%. Meanwhile, the water contact angle of the composite film was 107° and the water absorption reached a minimum of 2.1%, which showed improved hydrophobicity and water resistance.


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