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Magnetic-Assisted Transparent and Flexible Percolative Composite for Highly Sensitive Piezoresistive Sensor via Hot Embossing Technology

  • Shan Wang
  • , Guorui Chen
  • , Shaoyu Niu
  • , Kaifeng Chen
  • , Tian Gan
  • , Zongrong Wang
  • , Hongzhu Wang
  • , Piyi Du
  • , Chi Wah Leung
  • , Shaoxing Qu

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Abstract

A highly transparent and flexible percolative composite with magnetic reduced graphene oxide@nickel nanowire (mGN) fillers in EcoFlex matrix is proposed as a sensing layer to fabricate high-performance flexible piezoresistive sensors. Large excluded volume and alignment of mGN fillers contribute to low percolation threshold (0.27 vol %) of mGN-EcoFlex composites, leading to high electrical conductivity of 0.003 S m-1, optical transmittance of 71.8%, and low Young's modulus of 122.8 kPa. Large-scale microdome templates for sensors are prepared by hot embossing technology cost-effectively and COMSOL Multiphysics is utilized to optimize the sensor performances. Piezoresistive sensors fabricated experimentally show superior average sensitivity of 1302.1 kPa-1 with a low device-to-device variation of 3.74%, which provides a new way to achieve transparent, highly sensitive, and large-scale electronic skin.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)48331-48340
Number of pages10
JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume11
Issue number51
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Dec 2019

Keywords

  • excluded volume
  • hot embossing
  • percolative composite
  • piezoresistive sensors
  • transparent

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science

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