• 文献标题:   Highly sensitive wearable 3D piezoresistive pressure sensors based on graphene coated isotropic non-woven substrate
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LU YJ, TIAN MW, SUN XT, PAN N, CHEN FX, ZHU SF, ZHANG XS, CHEN SJ
  • 作者关键词:   fabric, graphene, physical propertie, surface treatment
  • 出版物名称:   COMPOSITES PART AAPPLIED SCIENCE MANUFACTURING
  • ISSN:   1359-835X EI 1878-5840
  • 通讯作者地址:   Qingdao Univ
  • 被引频次:   45
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.compositesa.2018.11.023
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Piezoresistive pressure sensors are deemed as a critical sensing component in wearable devices, and various polymer assembly with different structures are selected as flexible sensor substances. In this paper, low cost, commercial three-dimensional polyester non-woven fabrics (PNWFs) were employed as the sensor substrate whose advantages were elucidated through mathematical analysis. The effects of structure parameters (fiber diameter and fiber volume fraction) of 3D non-woven sensors on the sensing performance were analyzed. Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) were deposited on the substrate to form the piezoresistive pressure sensor with a high conductivity 0.29 S/m after thermal reduction treatment. The assembled pressure sensors in general possessed excellent sensing characteristics, including excellent sensitivities of compressing (S = 23.41 kPa(-1)) and bending (S = 35.37 kPa(-1)), short response time (120 ms) and recovery time (240 ms), favorable resolutions (18 Pa under compressing and 21 Pa under bending) and low hysteresis value (0.8%). Finally, the pressure sensor has demonstrated successfully in detecting various physiological activities and subtle physiological signals, including walking, running, elbow flexing, finger bending, breathing, speaking and blood pulse beating.