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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 29, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201807058
Keywords
biocompatible sensors; fluidic soft sensors; wearable sensors
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- NIH/NICHD [1R01HD090985-01]
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
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Fluidic soft sensors have been widely used in wearable devices for human motion capturing. However, thus far, the biocompatibility of the conductive liquid, the linearity of the sensing signal, and the hysteresis between the loading and release processes have limited the sensing quality as well as the applications of these sensors. In this paper, silicone based strain and force sensors composed of a novel biocompatible conductive liquid (potassium iodide and glycerol solution) are introduced. The strain sensors exhibit negligible hysteresis up to 5 Hz, with a gauge factor of 2.2 at 1 Hz. The force sensors feature a novel multifunctional layered structure, with microcylinder-filled channels to achieve high linearity, low hysteresis (5.3% hysteresis at 1 Hz), and good sensitivity (100% resistance increase at a 5 N load). The sensors' gauge factors are stable at various temperatures and humidity levels. These biocompatible, low hysteresis, and high linearity sensors are promising for safe and reliable diagnostic devices, wearable motion capture, and compliant human-computer interfaces.
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