• 文献标题:   Wireless Monitoring of Small Strains in Intelligent Robots via a Joule Heating Effect in Stretchable Graphene-Polymer Nanocomposites
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG D, XU SW, ZHAO X, QIAN WQ, BOWEN CR, YANG Y
  • 作者关键词:   graphenepolymer, joule heating effect, strain sensor, stretchable sensor, wireless monitoring
  • 出版物名称:   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   1616-301X EI 1616-3028
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1002/adfm.201910809 EA FEB 2020
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Flexible strain sensors are an important component for future intelligent robotics. However, the majority of current strain sensors must be electrically connected to a corresponding monitoring system via conducting wires, which increases system complexity and restricts the working environment for monitoring strains. Here, stretchable graphene-polymer nanocomposites that act as strain sensors using a Joule heating effect are reported. When the resistance of the sensor changes in response to a strain, the resulting change in temperature is wirelessly detected in an intelligent robot. By engineering and optimizing the surface structure of graphene-polymer nanocomposites, the fabricated strain sensors exhibit excellent stability when subjected to periodic temperature signals over 400 cycles while being periodically strained and deliver a high strain sensitivity of 7.03 x 10(-4) degrees C-1 %(-1) for strain levels of 0% to 30%. As a wearable electronic device, the approach provides the capability to wirelessly monitor small strains for intelligent robots at a high strain resolution of approximate to 0.1%. Moreover, when the strain sensing system operates as a multichannel structure, it allows precise strain detection simultaneously, or in sequence, for each finger of an intelligent robot.