Issue 24, 2016

Highly sensitive, tunable, and durable gold nanosheet strain sensors for human motion detection

Abstract

We report highly sensitive, tunable, and durable strain sensors based on a simple structure consisting of a multilayered film of gold (Au) nanosheets as a sensing layer on a highly stretchable Ecoflex substrate. The high sensitivity of the sensor at different levels of strain was achieved by controlling the stacking number of micrometer-sized Au nanosheets with a thickness of ∼20 nm, which enabled the control of piezoresisitivity of the sensing layer through the change in contact resistance between Au nanosheets under mechanical bending and stretching. The Au nanosheet-based strain sensors exhibited excellent electrical stability without degradation in sensing-performance even after 10 000 stretching cycles. Our highly sensitive, reproducible, tunable, and durable strain sensors were demonstrated to monitor large-scale body motions such as bending, walking, jumping, and squatting, as well as to detect small skin strains induced by minute movements of muscles upon breathing, speaking, and coughing.

Graphical abstract: Highly sensitive, tunable, and durable gold nanosheet strain sensors for human motion detection

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Jan 2016
Accepted
14 Apr 2016
First published
10 May 2016

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016,4, 5642-5647

Highly sensitive, tunable, and durable gold nanosheet strain sensors for human motion detection

G. Lim, N. Lee and B. Lim, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 5642 DOI: 10.1039/C6TC00251J

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