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Reduced graphene oxide/polyurethane composite sponge fabricated by dual-templates method for piezoresistive pressure sensor

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2024, 34(2), pp.805-814
  • DOI : 10.1007/s42823-023-00639-4
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
  • Received : March 12, 2023
  • Accepted : November 27, 2023
  • Published : March 28, 2024

Zhang Jingwen 1 Liu Lian 1 Liu Jiao 1 Zhu Yanbin 1 Kong Gang 1 Ou Zijing 1 Lai Delin 1 Zhang Shuanghong 2 Che Chunshan 1

1South China University of Technology
2Guangzhou Special Pressure Equipment Inspection and Research Institute

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ABSTRACT

Wearable sensors with highly flexible and sensitive characteristics have attracted research interests in the promising field of electronic skin, health monitoring, and soft robotics. However, the developing of high-performance piezoresistive sensor is full of challenges due to the expensive equipment and complex procedures. Herein, we fabricate a reduced graphene oxide/polyurethane composite sponge (GPCS) pressure sensor combining with dual-templates. The polyurethane (PU) sponge provides an elastic structure as solid template. Meanwhile, air bubbles as gas template are used to uniformly disperse graphene oxide (GO) sheets. The burst of air bubbles in the process of thermal treatment makes GO coating on the surface of PU skeleton, avoiding the aggregation of reduced graphene oxide. Therefore, the GPCS exhibits excellent compressibility and uniform coating structure. As a result, it also possesses high sensitivity (Gauge Factor = 3.00 in the range of 0–10% strain), fast response time (35 ms), and excellent cyclic piezoresistive stability (5000 loading–unloading cycles) when applied in the pressure sensor field. Moreover, the flexible wearable stress–strain sensor assembled by the GPCS can be easily adhered on the surface of human skin and precisely detect human movements such as elbow bending and finger bending. Such low-cost procedure and excellent sensing performance enable GPCS sensor to demonstrate tremendous application potential in the field of advanced wearable devices.

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