Flexible Sandwich Structural Strain Sensor Based on Silver Nanowires Decorated with Self‐Healing Substrate

Abstract

Flexible and stretchable conducting composites that can sense stress or strain are needed for several emerging fields including human motion detection and personalized health monitoring. Silver nanowires (AgNWs) have already been used as conductive networks. However, once a traditional polymer is broken, the conductive network is subsequently destroyed. Integrating high pressure sensitivity and repeatable self‐healing capability into flexible strain sensors represents new advances for high performance strain sensing. Herein, superflexible 3D architectures are fabricated by sandwiching a layer of AgNWs decorated self‐healing polymer between two layers of polydimethylsiloxane, which exhibit good stability, self‐healability, and stretchability. For better mechanical properties, the self‐healing polymer is reinforced with carbon fibers (CFs). The sensors based on self‐healing polymer and AgNWs conductive network show high conductivity and excellent ability to repair both mechanical and electrical damage. They can detect different human motions accurately such as bending and recovering of the forearm and shank, the changes of palm, fist, and fingers. The fracture tensile stress of the reinforced self‐healing polymer (9 wt% CFs) is increased to 10.3 MPa with the elongation at break of 8%. The stretch/release responses under static and dynamic loads of the sensor have a high sensitivity, large sensing range, excellent reliability, and remarkable stability.

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