期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 14, 期 7, 页码 9570-9578出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c21003
关键词
multimodal sensor; porous PDMS; conductive polymer; wearable sensors; stretchable electronics
资金
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [INV-005417]
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [INV-005417] Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Soft wearable sensors that can respond to and distinguish pressure, strain, and temperature stimuli have been developed. These sensors utilize a porous PDMS sponge coated with a conductive polymer, allowing for simultaneous measurement of resistance and capacitance changes to differentiate between different stimuli.
Soft wearable sensors are essential components for applications such as motion tracking, human-machine interface, and soft robots. However, most of the reported sensors are either specifically designed to target an individual stimulus or capable of responding to multiple stimuli (e.g., pressure and strain) but without the necessary selectivity to distinguish those stimuli. Here we report an elastomeric sponge-based sensor that can respond to and distinguish three different kinds of stimuli: pressure, strain, and temperature. The sensor utilizes a porous polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) sponge fabricated from a sugar cube sacrificial template, which was subsequently coated with a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) conductive polymer through a low-cost dip-coating process. Responses to different types of stimuli can be distinguished by simultaneously recording resistance and capacitance changes. Because pressure, tensile strain, and temperature change result in different trends in resistance and capacitance change, those stimuli can be clearly distinguished from each other by simultaneously measuring the resistance and capacitance of the sensor. We have also studied the effect of the pore size on the sensor performance and have found that the sponge sensor with smaller pores generally offers greater resistance change and better sensitivity. As a proof-of-concept, we have demonstrated the use of the porous sponge sensor on an artificial hand for object detection, gesture recognition, and temperature sensing applications.
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