Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages 10623-10631Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c22318
Keywords
nanofibrous grid; uniform field electrospinning; self-power sensing; piezoelectric output; tactile sensor
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31771034, 32071394]
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By utilizing self-powered sensors with high resolution and flexibility, real-time motion tracking, accurate spatial sensing, and location identification can be achieved, providing potential applications in electronic skin, robotics, and artificial intelligence interfaces.
Tactile sensors are indispensable to wearable electronics, but still lack self-powering, high resolution, and flexibility. Herein, we present direct-written piezoelectric poly(vinylidene difluoride) fibers that are orthogonally assembled into nanofibrous grids (NFGs) as self-powered tactile sensors. Five nanofibrous strips (NFSs) are written on a polyurethane film via a uniform-field electrospinning (UFES) process, and two polyurethane films are orthogonally assembled into 5 x 5 NFGs with 25 pixels. Benefited from the mechanical flexibility and helical architecture of UFES fibers, stable piezoelectric outputs have been detected according to different locations or different pressures on an NFS, and a sensitivity of 7.1 mV/kPa is detected from the slope of voltage-pressure curves. In the orthogonally assembled NFGs, the pressure on a pixel of an NFS causes corresponding deformations of neighboring NFSs. The piezoelectric outputs vary with the distance from the pressing point, enabling us to position the pressing points and track the pressing trajectory in real time. Through judging piezoelectric outputs of all NFSs, precise locations of any pressed pixel with a resolution of 1 mm are presented vividly via luminous light-emitting diodes (LED), and the mapping profiles are displayed by pressing metal letters (S, W, J, T, and U) on multiple pixels. Furthermore, the coordinates of pressure either on an NFS or between NFSs with a resolution of 0.5 mm are reported digitally on a liquid crystal display (LCD). Thus, we developed novel self-powered tactile sensors with orthogonal NFGs to achieve real-time motion tracking, accurate spatial sensing, and location identification with high resolutions, which provide potential applications in electronic skin, robotics, and interface of artificial intelligence.
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