3D printable composite dough for stretchable, ultrasensitive and body-patchable strain sensors

Ju Young Kim, Seulgi Ji, Sungmook Jung, Beyong Hwan Ryu, Hyun Suk Kim, Sun Sook Lee, Youngmin Choi, Sunho Jeong

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Abstract

The recent development of strain sensor devices which can actively monitor human body motion has attracted tremendous attention, for application in various wearable electronics and human-machine interfaces. In this study, as materials for strain sensor devices, we exploit the low-cost, carbon-based, 3-dimensional (3D) printable composite dough. The dough is prepared via a chemical method based on the formation of electrostatic assemblies between 1-dimensional, amine-functionalized, multi-walled carbon nanotubes and 2-dimensional graphene oxides. The resulting composite dough has an extremely high storage modulus, which allows a vertically-stackable, 3D printing process for fabricating strain sensor devices on various dense, porous and structured substrates. The device performance parameters, including gauge factor, hysteresis, linearity, and overshooting behavior are found to be adjustable by controlling the printing process parameters. The fabricated strain sensor devices demonstrate the ability to distinguish actual human body motions. A high gauge factor of over 70 as well as other excellent device performance parameters are achievable for the printed sensor devices, and even small strains, below 1%, are also detectable by the fabricated sensor devices.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11035-11046
Number of pages12
JournalNanoscale
Volume9
Issue number31
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Aug 2017

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