Carbonized cotton fabric-based multilayer piezoresistive pressure sensors

Zhang, Lin; Lai, Xuejun; Gao, Tianyuan; Liao, Xiaofeng; Chen, Wanjuan

doi:10.1007/s10570-019-02432-x

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“…In recent years, with the development of sensors able to measure different parameters (e.g., temperature, pressure, and humidity), mimicking the functioning of human skin receptors, tactile sensing technologies have been widely explored to reproduce the human sense of touch [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Such devices are mainly classified according to the transduction principle that they exploit, distinguishing between piezoresistive [12], capacitive [13], optical [9,14,15], and piezoelectric sensors [7,[16][17][18].…”

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Seedless Hydrothermal Growth of ZnO Nanorods as a Promising Route for Flexible Tactile Sensors

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Hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanorods has been widely used for the development of tactile sensors, with the aid of ZnO seed layers, favoring the growth of dense and vertically aligned nanorods. However, seed layers represent an additional fabrication step in the sensor design. In this study, a seedless hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanorods was carried out on Au-coated Si and polyimide substrates. The effects of both the Au morphology and the growth temperature on the characteristics of the nanorods were investigated, finding that smaller Au grains produced tilted rods, while larger grains provided vertical rods. Highly dense and high-aspect-ratio nanorods with hexagonal prismatic shape were obtained at 75 °C and 85 °C, while pyramid-like rods were grown when the temperature was set to 95 °C. Finite-element simulations demonstrated that prismatic rods produce higher voltage responses than the pyramid-shaped ones. A tactile sensor, with an active area of 1 cm2, was fabricated on flexible polyimide substrate and embedding the nanorods forest in a polydimethylsiloxane matrix as a separation layer between the bottom and the top Au electrodes. The prototype showed clear responses upon applied loads of 2–4 N and vibrations over frequencies in the range of 20–800 Hz.

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Seedless Hydrothermal Growth of ZnO Nanorods as a Promising Route for Flexible Tactile Sensors

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“…For all strategies, the resultant micro-structuring has a limited level of tailoring. Incorporation of sponges [ 192 , 193 , 194 , 195 , 196 , 197 , 198 , 199 ], foams [ 200 , 201 , 202 , 203 , 204 , 205 , 206 , 207 ], paper [ 208 , 209 , 210 , 211 , 212 ], and natural or synthetic fabrics (such as cotton, leather, silk, polyamide fabric, polyester fabric, polypropylene fabric, polyurethane fibers, and tissue paper) [ 32 , 123 , 134 , 213 , 214 , 215 , 216 , 217 , 218 , 219 , 220 , 221 , 222 , 223 ] that are afterwards chemically modified to become conductive, typically by carbonization [ 123 , 196 , 216 ] or by dip-coating with rGO [ 192 , 195 , 219 , 221 ], graphene [ 134 , 223 ], CNTs of different types [ 209 , <...>…”

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Transduction Mechanisms, Micro-Structuring Techniques, and Applications of Electronic Skin Pressure Sensors: A Review of Recent Advances

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Fortunato

Martins

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Electronic skin (e-skin), which is an electronic surrogate of human skin, aims to recreate the multifunctionality of skin by using sensing units to detect multiple stimuli, while keeping key features of skin such as low thickness, stretchability, flexibility, and conformability. One of the most important stimuli to be detected is pressure due to its relevance in a plethora of applications, from health monitoring to functional prosthesis, robotics, and human-machine-interfaces (HMI). The performance of these e-skin pressure sensors is tailored, typically through micro-structuring techniques (such as photolithography, unconventional molds, incorporation of naturally micro-structured materials, laser engraving, amongst others) to achieve high sensitivities (commonly above 1 kPa−1), which is mostly relevant for health monitoring applications, or to extend the linearity of the behavior over a larger pressure range (from few Pa to 100 kPa), an important feature for functional prosthesis. Hence, this review intends to give a generalized view over the most relevant highlights in the development and micro-structuring of e-skin pressure sensors, while contributing to update the field with the most recent research. A special emphasis is devoted to the most employed pressure transduction mechanisms, namely capacitance, piezoelectricity, piezoresistivity, and triboelectricity, as well as to materials and novel techniques more recently explored to innovate the field and bring it a step closer to general adoption by society.

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“…Despite their potential, to the best of our knowledge, CCF has rarely been used as an electrode in capacitive pressure sensors even though some studies have highlighted its application to supercapacitor electrodes [ 33 ], strain sensors [ 34 , 35 ], and resistive-type pressure sensors [ 32 , 36 ]. With efforts to enhance the sensitivity by engineering the dielectric layer, a CCF-based capacitive pressure sensor may be widely utilized in a variety of applications taking advantages of its less hazard to the human body and general benefits of a capacitive-type sensor.…”

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Carbonized Cotton Fabric-Based Flexible Capacitive Pressure Sensor Using a Porous Dielectric Layer with Tilted Air Gaps

Kim

2021

Sensors

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Flexible and wearable pressure sensors have attracted significant attention owing to their roles in healthcare monitoring and human–machine interfaces. In this study, we introduce a wide-range, highly sensitive, stable, reversible, and biocompatible pressure sensor based on a porous Ecoflex with tilted air-gap-structured and carbonized cotton fabric (CCF) electrodes. The knitted structure of electrodes demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed sensor in enhancing the pressure-sensing performance in comparison to a woven structure due to the inherent properties of naturally generated space. In addition, the presence of tilted air gaps in the porous elastomer provided high deformability, thereby significantly improving the sensor sensitivity compared to other dielectric structures that have no or vertical air gaps. The combination of knitted CCF electrodes and the porous dielectric with tilted air gaps achieved a sensitivity of 24.5 × 10−3 kPa−1 at 100 kPa, along with a wide detection range (1 MPa). It is also noteworthy that this novel method is low-cost, facile, scalable, and ecofriendly. Finally, the proposed sensor integrated into a smart glove detected human motions of grasping water cups, thus demonstrating its potential applications in wearable electronics.

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Carbonized cotton fabric-based multilayer piezoresistive pressure sensors

Cited by 58 publications

References 41 publications

Seedless Hydrothermal Growth of ZnO Nanorods as a Promising Route for Flexible Tactile Sensors

Seedless Hydrothermal Growth of ZnO Nanorods as a Promising Route for Flexible Tactile Sensors

Transduction Mechanisms, Micro-Structuring Techniques, and Applications of Electronic Skin Pressure Sensors: A Review of Recent Advances

Carbonized Cotton Fabric-Based Flexible Capacitive Pressure Sensor Using a Porous Dielectric Layer with Tilted Air Gaps

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