Flexible Piezoresistive Sensors Based on PPy Granule-Anchored Multilayer Fibrous Membranes with a Wide Operating Range and High Sensitivity

The employment of flexible piezoresistive sensors has sparked growing interest within the realm of wearable electronic devices, specifically in the fields of health detection and e-skin. Nevertheless, the advancement of piezoresistive sensors has been impeded by their limited sensitivity and restric...

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Published in:	ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 16; no. 15; pp. 19421 - 19431
Main Authors:	Wei, Ji-an, Zhang, Zhongliang, Chen, Lei, Zhang, Yunjie, Gao, Yanyu, Shahzad, Asim, Tao, Zhengheng, Ma, Qianli, Zhang, Boxing, Guo, Chen, Shu, Lin, Xu, Xiangmin, Yu, Qianqian, Wang, LinGe
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Chemical Society 17-04-2024
Subjects:	Functional Nanostructured Materials (including low-D carbon) flexible piezoresistive sensor ultrawide pressure range electrospun composite fibers micronano structure wireless wearable device
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Summary:	The employment of flexible piezoresistive sensors has sparked growing interest within the realm of wearable electronic devices, specifically in the fields of health detection and e-skin. Nevertheless, the advancement of piezoresistive sensors has been impeded by their limited sensitivity and restricted operating ranges. Consequently, it is imperative to fabricate sensors with heightened sensitivity and expanded operating ranges through the utilization of the appropriate methodologies. In this paper, piezoresistive sensors were fabricated utilizing electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride/polyacrylonitrile/polyethylene-polypropylene glycol multilayer fibrous membranes anchored with polypyrrole granules as the sensing layer, while electrospun thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) fibers were employed as the flexible substrate. The sensitivity of the sensor is investigated by varying the fiber diameter of the sensing layer. The experimental findings reveal that a concentration of 14 wt % in the spinning solution exhibits high sensitivity (996.7 kPa–1) within a wide working range (0–10 kPa). This is attributed to the favorable diameter of the fibers prepared at this concentration, which facilitates the uniform in situ growth of pyrrole. The highly deformable TPU flexible fibers and multilayer sensing layer structure enable different linear responses across a broad pressure range (0–1 MPa). Furthermore, the sensor demonstrates good cyclic stability and can detect human movements under different pressures. These results suggest that the piezoresistive sensor with a wide operating range and high sensitivity has significant potential for future health monitoring and artificial intelligence applications.
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ISSN:	1944-8244 1944-8252
DOI:	10.1021/acsami.4c02635