Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201804600
Keywords
functionalized graphene; health monitoring; molecular self-assembly; pressure sensors; tunable mechanoresponse
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Funding
- European Commission through the Graphene Flagship Core 2 project [GA-785219]
- International Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry (icFRC), the Polish National Science Centre [2015/18/E/ST5/00188, 2016/23/N/ST5/00063]
- Ernest Solvay Fund
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The development of pressure sensors is crucial for the implementation of electronic skins and for health monitoring integrated into novel wearable devices. Tremendous effort is devoted toward improving their sensitivity, e.g., by employing microstructured electrodes or active materials through cumbersome processes. Here, a radically new type of piezoresistive pressure sensor based on a millefeuille-like architecture of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) intercalated by covalently tethered molecular pillars holding on-demand mechanical properties are fabricated. By applying a tiny pressure to the multilayer structure, the electron tunnelling ruling the charge transport between successive rGO sheets yields a colossal decrease in the material's electrical resistance. Significantly, the intrinsic rigidity of the molecular pillars employed enables the fine-tuning of the sensor's sensitivity, reaching sensitivities as high as 0.82 kPa(-1) in the low pressure region (0-0.6 kPa), with short response times (approximate to 24 ms) and detection limit (7 Pa). The pressure sensors enable efficient heartbeat monitoring and can be easily transformed into a matrix capable of providing a 3D map of the pressure exerted by different objects.
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