Ultrastretchable and Stable Strain Sensors Based on Antifreezing and Self-Healing Ionic Organohydrogels for Human Motion Monitoring.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
; 11(9): 9405-9414, 2019 Mar 06.
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| ID: mdl-30763515
Ionic hydrogels, a class of intrinsically stretchable and conductive materials, are widely used in soft electronics. However, the easy freezing and drying of water-based hydrogels significantly limit their long-term stability. Here, a facile solvent-replacement strategy is developed to fabricate ethylene glycol (Eg)/glycerol (Gl)-water binary antifreezing and antidrying organohydrogels for ultrastretchable and sensitive strain sensing within a wide temperature range. Because of the ready formation of strong hydrogen bonds between Eg/Gl and water molecules, the organohydrogels gain exceptional freezing and drying tolerance with retained deformability, conductivity, and self-healing ability even stay at extreme temperature for a long time. Thus, the fabricated strain sensor displays a gauge factor of 6, which is much higher than previously reported values for hydrogel-based strain sensors. Furthermore, the strain sensor exhibits a relatively wide strain range (0.5-950%) even at -18 °C. Various human motions with different strain levels are monitored by the strain sensor with good stability and repeatability from -18 to 25 °C. The organohydrogels maintained the strain sensing capability when exposed to ambient air for nine months. This work provides new insight into the fabrication of stable, ultrastretchable, and ultrasensitive strain sensors using chemically modified organohydrogel for emerging wearable electronics.
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Asunto principal:
Hidrogeles
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Dispositivos Electrónicos Vestibles
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Movimiento (Física)
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Antifúngicos
Límite:
Humans
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En
Revista:
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
Asunto de la revista:
BIOTECNOLOGIA
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ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA
Año:
2019
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Article
País de afiliación:
China
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos