title: Super-stretchable, transparent carbon nanotube-based capacitive strain sensors for human motion detection.
abstract: Realization of advanced bio-interactive electronic devices requires mechanically compliant sensors with the ability to detect extremely large strain. Here, we design a new multifunctional carbon nanotube (CNT) based capacitive strain sensors which can detect strains up to 300% with excellent durability even after thousands of cycles. The CNT-based strain gauge devices exhibit deterministic and linear capacitive response throughout the whole strain range with a gauge factor very close to the predicted value (strictly 1), representing the highest sensitivity value. The strain tests reveal the presented strain gauge with excellent dynamic sensing ability without overshoot or relaxation, and ultrafast response at sub-second scale. Coupling these superior sensing capabilities to the high transparency, physical robustness and flexibility, we believe the designed stretchable multifunctional CNT-based strain gauge may have various potential applications in human friendly and wearable smart electronics, subsequently demonstrated by our prototypical data glove and respiration monitor.
authors.affiliation: 1] Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China [2] Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Le
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Pingshan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Luan
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qingqing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Duan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Wenbin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Qingxia
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Weiya
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Pulickel M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Ajayan
authors.forename: Sishen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xie
mesh_terms: D004566:Electrodes; D004581:Electronics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000648:ultrastructure
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon