Ultrasensitive and Highly Stretchable Fiber with Dual Conductive Microstructural Sheaths for Human Motion and Micro Vibration Sensing

Nanoscale ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jieyu Xiao ◽  
Yan Xiong ◽  
Juan Chen ◽  
Shanshan Zhao ◽  
Shangbi Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Vibration Sensing ◽  
Highly Stretchable ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
Micro Vibration

Conductive and stretchable fibers are important components of the increasingly popular wearable electronics to meet the design requirements of excellent electrical conductivity, stretchability, and wearability. In this work, we developed...

A multifunctional and highly stretchable electronic device based on silver nanowire/wrap yarn composite for a wearable strain sensor and heater

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (43) ◽  
pp. 13468-13476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhao ◽  
Dawei Li ◽  
Jieyu Huang ◽  
Di Wang ◽  
Alfred Mensah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Device ◽  
Strain Sensor ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Silver Nanowire ◽  
Thermal Therapy ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Human Motion Detection ◽  
Healthcare Monitoring ◽  
Highly Stretchable ◽  
Yarn Composite

Stretchable and wearable electronics, as a well-researched engineering frontier, can be applied in human motion detection, thermal therapy, personal healthcare monitoring and smart human–machine interactions.

scholarly journals Stretchable Strain Sensor for Human Motion Monitoring Based on an Intertwined-Coil Configuration

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1980
Author(s):  
Wei Pan ◽  
Wei Xia ◽  
Feng-Shuo Jiang ◽  
Xiao-Xiong Wang ◽  
Zhi-Guang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermoplastic Polyurethane ◽  
Strain Sensor ◽  
Dip Coating ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Special Configuration ◽  
Highly Stretchable ◽  
Application Potential ◽  
Promising Application ◽  
Human Motion Monitoring

Wearable electronics, such as sensors, actuators, and supercapacitors, have attracted broad interest owing to their promising applications. Nevertheless, practical problems involving their sensitivity and stretchability remain as challenges. In this work, efforts were devoted to fabricating a highly stretchable and sensitive strain sensor based on dip-coating of graphene onto an electrospun thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) nanofibrous membrane, followed by spinning of the TPU/graphene nanomembrane into an intertwined-coil configuration. Owing to the intertwined-coil configuration and the synergy of the two structures (nanoscale fiber gap and microscale twisting of the fiber gap), the conductive strain sensor showed a stretchability of 1100%. The self-inter-locking of the sensor prevents the coils from uncoiling. Thanks to the intertwined-coil configuration, most of the fibers were wrapped into the coils in the configuration, thus avoiding the falling off of graphene. This special configuration also endowed our strain sensor with an ability of recovery under a strain of 400%, which is higher than the stretching limit of knees and elbows in human motion. The strain sensor detected not only subtle movements (such as perceiving a pulse and identifying spoken words), but also large movements (such as recognizing the motion of fingers, wrists, knees, etc.), showing promising application potential to perform as flexible strain sensors.

scholarly journals Anisotropic, Wrinkled, and Crack-Bridging Structure for Ultrasensitive, Highly Selective Multidirectional Strain Sensors

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heng Zhang ◽  
Dan Liu ◽  
Jeng-Hun Lee ◽  
Haomin Chen ◽  
Eunyoung Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rational Design ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Strain Sensors ◽  
Gauge Factor ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Human Motion Detection ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Anisotropic Structures

AbstractFlexible multidirectional strain sensors are crucial to accurately determining the complex strain states involved in emerging sensing applications. Although considerable efforts have been made to construct anisotropic structures for improved selective sensing capabilities, existing anisotropic sensors suffer from a trade-off between high sensitivity and high stretchability with acceptable linearity. Here, an ultrasensitive, highly selective multidirectional sensor is developed by rational design of functionally different anisotropic layers. The bilayer sensor consists of an aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) array assembled on top of a periodically wrinkled and cracked CNT–graphene oxide film. The transversely aligned CNT layer bridge the underlying longitudinal microcracks to effectively discourage their propagation even when highly stretched, leading to superior sensitivity with a gauge factor of 287.6 across a broad linear working range of up to 100% strain. The wrinkles generated through a pre-straining/releasing routine in the direction transverse to CNT alignment is responsible for exceptional selectivity of 6.3, to the benefit of accurate detection of loading directions by the multidirectional sensor. This work proposes a unique approach to leveraging the inherent merits of two cross-influential anisotropic structures to resolve the trade-off among sensitivity, selectivity, and stretchability, demonstrating promising applications in full-range, multi-axis human motion detection for wearable electronics and smart robotics.

scholarly journals Fiber-junction design for directional bending sensors

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhundong Li ◽  
Fengming Hu ◽  
Zhiming Chen ◽  
Jingcheng Huang ◽  
Guoning Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Theoretical Expression ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Materials Synthesis ◽  
Conductive Fiber ◽  
Flexible Printed Circuit ◽  
Fiber Materials ◽  
Human Motion Monitoring

AbstractFlexible sensors in wearable electronics have become increasingly multifunctional due to the development of materials synthesis and structure design. In particular, structural design can not only add capabilities to sensors fabricated from existing available and normal materials, but also offer opportunities for the fabrication of sensors with certain desired functions. Here, we designed a series of fiber-junction structure models, in which two fibers were simply hooked to each other to form a junction on a flexible printed circuit, for fabrication of directional bending sensors. The value and direction of bending angle are related to the change in electronic signal by a theoretical expression, allowing us to employ a simple and practicable method to use available conductive fiber materials to fabricate high-sensitivity, high-resolution and directional bending sensors. In addition, these models are generally applicable, which have broad combination with different conductive fiber, and corresponding bending sensors all possess capability of directional identification. Furthermore, the capability of identifying directional bending was demonstrated by human motion monitoring such as joint bending and muscle contraction.

Investigating flexible textile-based coils for wireless charging wearable electronics

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danmei Sun ◽  
Meixuan Chen ◽  
Symon Podilchak ◽  
Apostolos Georgiadis ◽  
Qassim S Abdullahi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Electric Field ◽  
Dimensional Stability ◽  
Screen Printing ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Wireless Charging ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Screen Printed

Smart and interactive textiles have been attracted great attention in recent years. This research explored three different techniques and processes in developing textile-based conductive coils that are able to embed in a garment layer. Coils made through embroidery and screen printing have good dimensional stability, although the resistance of screen printed coil is too high due to the low conductivity of the print ink. Laser cut coil provided the best electrical conductivity; however, the disadvantage of this method is that it is very difficult to keep the completed coil to the predetermined shape and dimension. The tested results show that an electromagnetic field has been generated between the textile-based conductive coil and an external coil that is directly powered by electricity. The magnetic field and electric field worked simultaneously to complete the wireless charging process.

A highly stretchable strain sensor based on electrospun carbon nanofibers for human motion monitoring

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (82) ◽  
pp. 79114-79120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yichun Ding ◽  
Jack Yang ◽  
Charles R. Tolle ◽  
Zhengtao Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Nanofibers ◽  
Strain Sensor ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Sensitive Strain ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Highly Stretchable ◽  
Human Motion Monitoring

A highly stretchable and sensitive strain sensor assembled by embedding a free-standing electrospun carbon nanofibers (CNFs) mat in a polyurethane (PU) matrix shows a fast, stable, and reproducible response to strain up to 300%.

Highly stretchable conductive fabric using knitted cotton/lycra treated with polypyrrole/silver NPs composites post-treated with PEDOT:PSS

2021 ◽  
pp. 152808372110592
Author(s):  
Vahid Shakeri Siavashani ◽  
Gursoy Nevin ◽  
Majid Montazer ◽  
Pelin Altay
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Conductivity ◽  
Fourier Transform ◽  
Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Fourier Transform Infrared ◽  
Morphological Observation ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Flexible Sensors ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Fabric Surface

Flexible sensors and wearable electronics have become important in recent years. A good conductive and flexible textile is needed to develop a commercial wearable device. Conductive polymers have generally been used with limitation in reducing the surface resistance to a certain amount. In this research, a method for fabricating a stretchable highly conductive cotton/lycra knitted fabric is introduced by treating the fabric with polypyrrole (PPy), silver nanoparticles (SNPs) composites, and post-treating with poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS). Polypyrrole and SNPs were in situ fabricated on the cotton/lycra fabric by consecutive redox reaction of silver nitrate and pyrrole and finally covered by PEDOT:PSS solution through dip-coating. The coated textile was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray mapping, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy confirmed PPy-SNPs (P-S) composites on the fabric surface. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy results, X-ray mapping, EDAX, and XRD analysis also confirmed the P-S composites and PEDOT:PSS polymeric layer on the fabric. Morphological observation showed a layer of PEDOT:PSS on the P-S caused the higher connection of coating on textiles which resulted in the higher electrical conductivity (43 s/m). Also morphological observations showed penetration of the silver particles inside fibers which represented improving in attachment and stability of the coating on the fibers. Further, the electrical conductivity of PPy-SNPs-PEDOT:PSS coated textile increased under the tension. Hence, the stretchable and highly conductive knitted cotton/lycra fabric has potentiality to be used for fabricating the flexible sensors or wearable electronics.

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