Journal
NANO ENERGY
Volume 59, Issue -, Pages 302-310Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.02.054
Keywords
Triboelectric nanogenerator; Tactile sensor; Self-powered; Ionogel; Biomedical monitoring
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81471784, 21875268]
- Nature Science Foundation of Beijing [2172058]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [2015023, 2016026]
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Wearable electronic devices have attracted numerous attention in tactile sensing, motion detecting, and biomedical signal monitoring. In particular, a wearable and self-powered sensor combining all the merits of sensitivity, transparency, stretchability, and flexibility is highly demanded to adapt human skins. Herein, we report a fully transparent, highly stretchable, and self-powered contact-separation triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) as a tactile sensor. The TENG consists of a double-network ionogel with the transparency, stretchability, and conductivity as the electrode and one friction layer, and patterned polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as another friction layer. The fabricated sensor reaches a maximum sensitivity of 1.76 V N-1 when detecting impacting forces in the range of 0.1-1 N. Meanwhile, with good stretchability of the sensor, the triboelectric signals maintain a good linearity with impacting forces at different tensile ratios (0%, 10%, 50%, and 80% strain). These properties enable the sensor to be capable of monitoring a variety of human activities, including finger touching and bending, breathing, and pulse beating. We believe such a transparent, stretchable and self-powered tactile TENG sensor has tremendous application potential in wearable and soft electronics.
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