• 文献标题:   Wearable Graphene Sensors With Microfluidic Liquid Metal Wiring for Structural Health Monitoring and Human Body Motion Sensing
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JIAO YY, YOUNG CW, YANG S, OREN S, CEYLAN H, KIM S, GOPALAKRISHNAN K, TAYLOR PC, DONG L
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, microelectromechanical system, liquid metal, structural health monitoring, wearable sensor, microfluidic
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
  • ISSN:   1530-437X EI 1558-1748
  • 通讯作者地址:   Iowa State Univ
  • 被引频次:   18
  • DOI:   10.1109/JSEN.2016.2608330
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

This paper reports on all-flexible strain sensors made of graphene, microfluidic liquid metal, and stretchable elastomer. These graphene sensors feature a flexible wiring design, where liquid metal is introduced into microfluidic channels for wiring inside the devices. This design allows enhanced overall structural flexibility and a reduced risk of stress-related mechanical failure of the sensors, at the contact areas between the graphene sensing elements and the metal wires. A unidirectional strain sensor and a multidirectional rosette strain sensor are developed, by encasing patterned graphene and microfluidic liquid metal channels with a stretchable elastomer. We demonstrate the use of the developed unidirectional strain sensor for structural health monitoring of curved concrete structures, and for tracking the angular motion of a human wrist. The multilayer rosette strain sensor is shown to be capable of detecting the amplitude and angle of a primary strain in a multidirectional strain field.