期刊
ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES
卷 5, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/admt.202000515
关键词
bioinspiration; hydrogel fibers; stretchable photonics; underwater sensing
资金
- National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51873035, 21991123]
- Qimingxing Plan [19QA1400200]
Underwater sensing plays a vital role in perceiving various hydrodynamic stimuli for underwater operations, while fishes evolve an adaptable, durable, and multifunctional lateral line sensory system to feel mechanical deformations from nearly all sources as well as water temperature changes. Such perfect integration of multiple functions into one biological system poses a great challenge for artificial soft sensors. Here, by constructing a stretchable and water-proof core-cladding hydrogel-elastomer hybrid optical fiber, nearly all the underwater sensations of fish lateral lines can be realized with unprecedented sensing stability. High-refractive-index salt, LiBr, is introduced to the hydrogel core to enable long-range light propagation with a low loss coefficient (approximate to 0.32 dB cm(-1)), and the dissimilar yet tightly adhered hydrogel-elastomer interface is readily deformable, contributing to the ultrasensitive optical response to subtle environmental stimulations, induced by either motions, hydrostatic pressure variations, ultrasonic/audible sound waves, or water flows. Moreover, the optical loss of the hybrid fiber is linearly responsive to wide temperature changes (5-70 degrees C), caused by the altered light scattering from hydrogel chain clustering. The present elastomer-hydrogel hybrid optical fiber offers a new designing strategy in developing next-generation underwater stretchable ray-optic sensors.
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