A Double-layer Carbon Nanotubes/Polyvinyl Alcohol Hydrogel with High Stretchability and Compressibility for Human Motion Detection
Kun Huang, Yufeng Wu, Junchen Liu, Geng Chang, Xuchao Pan, Xiaodi Weng, Yonggang Wang, and Ming Lei
1State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China
2Ministerial Key Laboratory of ZNDY, Nanjing University of Science &Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China
3Unit 96911 of PLA, Beijing, 100010, China
Abstract
With the development of technology and the improvement of living standards, hydrogel-based strain sensors have attracted more attention. However, fabrication of hydrogel strain sensors with desirable mechanical and piezoresistive properties is still challenging. Herein, a double-layer flexible hydrogel sensor is presented, which is made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) with high stretchability up to 415% strain and supercompressibility to 92% strain, and considerable electrical conductivity (1.11 S m-1). The hydrogel sensors show great linearity throughout the detection range, excellent durability and stable relative resistance change (
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Received: 14 Nov 2021
Revised: 24 Nov 2021
Accepted: 25 Nov 2021
Published online: 14 Jan 2022
Article type:
Research Paper
DOI:
10.30919/es8d625
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17
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319-327
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Engineered Science, 2022, 17, 319-327
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A kind of double-layer CNTs/PVA hydrogel strain sensor was fabricated with high stretchability and c....
A kind of double-layer CNTs/PVA hydrogel strain sensor was fabricated with high stretchability and compressibility.
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