Journal
ADVANCED COMPOSITES AND HYBRID MATERIALS
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 2834-2846Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s42114-022-00465-8
Keywords
Poly(acrylamide) hydrogel; Vinyl hybrid silica nanoparticles; Polypyrrole; Honeycomb structure; Human motion monitoring
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52003249]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019M652571]
- Natural Science Foundation of Henan [202300410426]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2019YFA0706802]
- Open Funding Project of National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering [SYFD061910K]
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Hydrogel-based sensors with improved mechanical and conductive properties were developed by using vinyl hybrid silica nanoparticle (VSNP) as crosslinker and in situ polymerized polypyrrole (PPy) as conductive agent. The resulting hydrogels showed enhanced tensile strength, elongation at break, compression strength, and conductivity. These hydrogels also exhibited excellent cyclic stretching and compression performance, making them promising candidates for strain sensors.
Hydrogel-based sensors are playing important roles in artificial intelligence, benefiting from its flexibility and biocompatibility, whereas conventional hydrogels are fragile and electronically insulated in nature. To overcome these obstacles, in this work, a facile way was proposed by using vinyl hybrid silica nanoparticle (VSNP) as the crosslinker and in situ polymerized polypyrrole (PPy) as the conductive agent. The results showed that the tensile strength, the elongation at break, and the compression strength could be enlarged to 447 kPa, 1340%, and 5.56 MPa with only 0.16 wt. % of VSNPs. More importantly, benefiting from the formation of the unique honeycomb structure, the introduction of dopamine-modified PPy (DA @PPy) not only elevated the conductivity of hydrogel to 0.06 S/m but also further enhanced the tensile strength, the elongation at break, and the compression strength of 541 kPa, 1415%, and 7.27 MPa as the molar concentration of DA@ PPy was 0.4 mol/L. Cyclic tests proved that the as-prepared PAM/VSNPs/DA@PPy hydrogels were able to tolerant 2000 cyclic stretching and 500 cyclic compressions. In addition, during the cyclic test, the relative change of the resistance is sensitive to a wide stretching strain range (1-300%) and a compression strain range (up to 90%), making the hydrogels excellent candidates for strain sensors. The wide strain range and high sensitivity ensure that the PAM/VSNPs/DA@PPy hydrogels could capture not only subtle small strain facial movement but also large strain wrist bending. This work provides a new and convenient approach for the development of mechanically robust and conductive poly(acrylamide)-based nanocomposite hydrogel for human motion sensing.
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