• 文献标题:   A high performance self-healing strain sensor with synergetic networks of poly(epsilon-caprolactone) microspheres, graphene and silver nanowires
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIU SQ, LIN Y, WEI Y, CHEN S, ZHU JR, LIU L
  • 作者关键词:   polymermatrix composites pmcs, functional composite, electrical propertie, selfhealing, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   COMPOSITES SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0266-3538 EI 1879-1050
  • 通讯作者地址:   South China Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   21
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.compscitech.2017.03.044
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Flexible strain sensors have been widely applied in wearable devices. However, few studies focus on the self-healing performance though this property is essential to practical applications due to the inevitability of irreversible mechanical damages/cracks in the reciprocating deformation. Here we report a simple and effective approach to fabricate a flexible strain sensor with a conductive composite layer by pouring liquid polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) on the hybrids of poly(E-caprolactone) microspheres (m-PCL), graphene oxide (GO) and silver nanowires (AgNWs). Through a multidimensional hybridization method, the hybrid fillers form a synergetic conductive network in which GO have good interactions with both m-PCL and AgNWs, thus covering m-PCL and anchoring AgNWs. Due to the synergetic effects of the m-PCL/GO/AgNWs (PGA) conductive network, the strain sensor shows high sensitivity (0.26 rad(-1)), good conductivity (0.45 S/cm), excellent durability (more than 2400 bending cycles) and outstanding repeatable self-healing property at moderate temperature (self-healed for more than 5 times at 80 degrees C in 3 min), ensuring the potential applications in wearable devices. (C ) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.