• 文献标题:   Graphene Aerogel Broken to Fragments for a Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor with a Higher Sensitivity
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG CX, LIU WJ, LIU NS, SU J, LI LY, XIONG L, LONG F, ZOU ZG, GAO YH
  • 作者关键词:   cutting graphene aerogel, piezoresistive sensor, porou, elastic
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   1944-8244 EI 1944-8252
  • 通讯作者地址:   Huazhong Univ Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsami.9b12055
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

The porous and elastic reduced graphene aerogel (rGA) is a promising active material for piezoresistive pressure sensors (PRSs) to realize an electronic skin. Due to the specific working mechanism and the limitation of the rGAs monolithic conductive network, the PRSs based on rGA suffer from a limited change of resistance with mechanical deformation, so they show poor sensitivity and cannot detect low pressures. Here we aim to improve the sensitivity of the PRS and make it suitable for a low-pressure system (0.5-8 kPa) through an effective method. The monolithic rGA is broken into small pieces by cutting (named as CGA). The sensitivity of the PRS based on CGA can be improved by 10 times that of the uncut rGA (named as UCGA). The resistance variation ratio of CGA (0.96) is 1.45 times of the resistance variation ratio of the UCGA (0.66). By using a package of elastic polypropylene thin films (PP), the cycle stability performance of CGA remains stable after 4200 cycles. The CGA can detect the pulse of a human being with sensitivity higher than the UCGA and the ordinary sensors. This method is simple, effective, and universal to improve the sensitivity of PRS based on porous and elastic materials.