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SMALL
Volume 12, Issue 36, Pages 5074-5080Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201600553
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- Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China [2012DFH50120]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11204350, 21373263]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20131173]
- External Cooperation Program of BIC, the Chinese Academy of Science [121E32KYSB20130009]
- Special Project of Nanometer Technology in Suzhou [ZXG201423]
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Wearable sensors for the detection of human activities including subtle physiological signals and large-scale body motion as well as distinguishing the motion direction are highly desirable, but still a challenge. A flexible wearable piezoionic strain sensor based on the ionic polymer membrane sandwiched between two conductive electrodes is developed. This ionic polymer sensor can generate electrical signal output (approximate to mV) with rapid response (approximate to 50 ms) under the applied bending deformation due to the internal mobile ion redistribution. Compared with the currently studied resistive and capacitive sensors, this sensor can generate sensing signals without the requirement of additional power supply, and is able to distinguish the direction of the bending strain by observing the direction of generated electrical signals. For the sensor with metallic electrode, an output voltage of 1.3 mV is generated under a bending-induced strain of 1.8%, and this voltage can be largely increased when replacing the metallic electrodes by graphene composites. After simple encapsulation of the piezoionic sensor, a wearable sensor is constructed and succeeded in monitoring the diverse human activities ranging from complex large scale multidimensional motions to subtle signals, including wrist bending with different directions, sitting posture sensing, pulse wave, and finger touch.
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