Abstract
Highly stretchable fiber strain sensors are one of the most important components for various applications in wearable electronics, electronic textiles, and biomedical electronics. Herein, we present a facile approach for fabricating highly stretchable and sensitive fiber strain sensors by embedding Ag nanoparticles into a stretchable fiber with a multifilament structure. The multifilament structure and Ag-rich shells of the fiber strain sensor enable the sensor to simultaneously achieve both a high sensitivity and largely wide sensing range despite its simple fabrication process and components. The fiber strain sensor simultaneously exhibits ultrahigh gauge factors (9.3 × 105 and 659 in the first stretching and subsequent stretching, respectively), a very broad strain-sensing range (450 and 200% for the first and subsequent stretching, respectively), and high durability for more than 10000 stretching cycles. The fiber strain sensors can also be readily integrated into a glove to control a hand robot and effectively applied to monitor the large volume expansion of a balloon and a pig bladder for an artificial bladder system, thereby demonstrating the potential of the fiber strain sensors as candidates for electronic textiles, wearable electronics, and biomedical engineering.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4259-4268 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | ACS Nano |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 May 22 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Priority Research Centers Program (2009-0093823) through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), and Midcareer Researcher Program through an NRF grant funded by the MEST (2014R1A2A2A09053061). This work was also supported by R&D program of MOTIE/KEIT [10064081, Development of fiber-based flexible multimodal pressure sensor and algorithm for gesture/posture-recognizable wearable devices], the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2014R1A2A1A11053839), and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2017R1A2B4011455). This work was also supported by KIST project (2E27930). We thank the Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. for support on the usage of silver precursors.
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© 2018 American Chemical Society.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Materials Science(all)
- Engineering(all)
- Physics and Astronomy(all)