Superior sensitive, high-tensile flexible fabric film strain sensor

Wang X, Liu XH, Ge X, Schubert DW (2023)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2023

Journal

Book Volume: 172

Article Number: 107610

DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2023.107610

Abstract

Developing strain sensor with higher sensitivity and larger monitoring range is urgently needed for meeting the increasing potential applications of high-performance sensors in intelligent electronics, motion signal analysis and human monitoring. Herein, via an advanced and efficient method about embedding silver nanowires on electrospun thermoplastic polyurethane fabric film modified with carbon black, a high-performance flexible strain sensor is fabricated. The strain sensor exhibits excellent electrical response abilities of the superior sensitivity (gauge factor >16,000) with strain of 360%, an ultra-wide strain range (0.1% to 200%) and outstanding durability and reliability (>10,000 cycles) under cyclic stretching-recovering operating. Furthermore, mathematical fitting models about variation of resistance (ΔR/R0) and gauge factor upon the applied strains during the stretching process are proposed, which can quantitatively describe and analysis the variation of conductive pathways and inter-particles distance under the external stimuli. It is expected that such fitting models can be used to predict conductive sensing behaviors of flexible strain sensors for actual manufacturing and improvement of products.

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APA:

Wang, X., Liu, X.H., Ge, X., & Schubert, D.W. (2023). Superior sensitive, high-tensile flexible fabric film strain sensor. Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing, 172. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2023.107610

MLA:

Wang, Xin, et al. "Superior sensitive, high-tensile flexible fabric film strain sensor." Composites Part A-Applied Science and Manufacturing 172 (2023).

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