• 文献标题:   Food-Inspired, High-Sensitivity Piezoresistive Graphene Hydrogels
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ALJARID AAK, DOTY KL, WEI CC, SALVAGE JP, BOLAND CS
  • 作者关键词:   foodgrade, brown algae, biodegradable, nanocomposite, strain sensing, impact sensing
  • 出版物名称:   ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY ENGINEERING
  • ISSN:   2168-0485
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c06101
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

There is a societal need for electronic materials to meet sustainability standards to facilitate the creation of easily disposed of green devices. Commonly, polymer-based materials applied to create strain-sensing devices utilize hazardous solvents and nonrecyclable resources that are unsuitable for these goals. Here, we demonstrate a simple system based on food-grade algae that we mix with a pristine, aqueous graphene suspension to create nanocomposite films that were processed into biodegradable hydrogels, again using food-based culinary products. We report our hydrogels to have record low Young's moduli of similar to 0.6 Pa for a nanocomposite and record high gauge factors of G similar to 50 for a hydrogel system. Our sustainable graphene algae hydrogels were so sensitive that they could measure an object just 2 mg in mass, equivalent to a single rain droplet, impacting their surface.