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Fabrication and performance of full textile-based flexible piezoresistive pressure sensor

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With the development of wearable devices, wearable sensing systems for detecting human movement have attracted considerable attention of academic and industrial fields. Among them, the piezoresistive pressure sensor with high sensitivity, excellent stability, low cost, and large-area fabrication process is one of the research hotspots. In this paper, we designed a full textile piezoresistive pressure sensor with an interdigitated printed silver paste cotton fabric electrode as a bottom and a piezoresistive layer of silver nanowire-coated cotton fabric as a top electrode and the bottom and the top electrodes were encapsulated by a VHB adhesive film. Further the performances of the pressure sensor were investigated. The results show that the piezoresistive pressure sensor achieves high sensitivity of 2.56 × 104–4.42 × 106 Pa−1 when the sheet resistance of the piezoresistive layer changes from 1.51–0.09 Ω sq−1, the outstanding switching ratio of 107, the fast response time (6 ms), and relaxation properties (4 ms) to instantaneous pressure of 50 Pa. The detect changes in the signal of repeated bending of fingers and wrists show excellent repeatability and detection performance, suggesting its potential application in wearable controller and motion detection.

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by a Grant for National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61671140), Zhongshan Science and Technology Projects (No. 2019B2016), and Youth Innovation Talent Project and Special Projects in Key Areas for the Universities of Guangdong Province (No. 2019KQNCX190, 2020ZDZX2027, 2021ZDZX1009, 2021A0101180005). The innovation team of colleges and universities in Guangdong Province (2020KCXTD030).

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  1. Zhongshan Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Zhongshan, 528402, Guangdong, China

    C. Lai, X. Wu, C. Huang, X. Yuan, H. Liang, S. Wang, K. Lin & Y. Wang

  2. School of Materials and Energy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, Sichuan, China

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  3. Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Zhongshan Institute, Zhongshan, 528402, China

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YW and KL led and designed the experiment and wrote the manuscript; CL, XW, CH, XY, HL, and SW performed the experiments; CL and XW measured the microstructures of the samples; YW wrote and reviewed and edited the manuscript. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Lai, C., Wu, X., Huang, C. et al. Fabrication and performance of full textile-based flexible piezoresistive pressure sensor. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 4755–4763 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-07665-w

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