Advanced Fiber Materials, Volume. 6, Issue 4, 00417(2024)

Wrinkled and Fibrous Conductive Bandages with Tunable Mechanoelectrical Response Toward Wearable Strain Sensors

Xin Xu1,†... Yang Liu2,†, Hongwei Zhou2, Zhong Li2, Ruhai Wang2, Birui Jin2, Hao Liu3,4, Qianqian Fan6, Yunsheng Fang3,4, Na Liu5, Dong Wang1,*, Feng Xu3,4,** and Guoxu Zhao1,*** |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Hainan Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228 Hainan, China
  • 2School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Xi‘an Technological University, Xi‘an, 710021 Shaanxi, China
  • 3The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi‘an Jiaotong University, Xi‘an, 710049 Shaanxi, China
  • 4Bioinspired Engineering & Biomechanics Center (BEBC), Xi‘an Jiaotong University, Xi‘an, 710049 Shaanxi, China
  • 5Department of Gastroenterology, Hainan General Hospital, Hainan Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 570311 Hainan, China
  • 6Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Haikou People’s Hospital, Haikou Affiliated Hospital of Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, Haikou, 570208 Hainan, China
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    Wearable strain sensors (WSSs) have found widespread applications, where the key is to optimize their sensing and wearing performances. However, the intricate material designs for developing WSSs often rely on costly reagents and/or complex processes, which bring barriers to their large-scale production and use. Herein, a facile and affordable (material cost of < $0.002/cm2) method is presented for fabricating conductive bandage (CB)-based WSSs by electrospraying a carbon nanotube (CNT) layer on commercial self-adhesive bandages with excellent biosafety, stretchability, mechanical compliance, breathability and cost effectiveness. The wrinkled and fibrous structures of self-adhesive bandages were rationally leverage to control the geometry of CNT layer, thereby ensuring tunable mechanoelectrical sensitivities (gauge factors of 2 ~ 850) of CBs. Moreover, a strain-sensing mechanism directly mediated by the highly wrinkled microstructure is unveiled, which can work in synergy with a training-loosened-fibrous microstructure. The excellent performance of CBs for monitoring full-range strain signals in human bodies was further demonstrated. CBs would possess great potential for being developed into WSSs because of their outstanding cost-performance ratio.

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    Xin Xu, Yang Liu, Hongwei Zhou, Zhong Li, Ruhai Wang, Birui Jin, Hao Liu, Qianqian Fan, Yunsheng Fang, Na Liu, Dong Wang, Feng Xu, Guoxu Zhao. Wrinkled and Fibrous Conductive Bandages with Tunable Mechanoelectrical Response Toward Wearable Strain Sensors[J]. Advanced Fiber Materials, 2024, 6(4): 00417

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    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jan. 11, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 2, 2024

    Published Online: Nov. 14, 2024

    The Author Email: Wang Dong (wangdong@hainanu.edu.cn), Xu Feng (fengxu@mail.xjtu.edu.cn), Zhao Guoxu (zhaoguoxu@hainanu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s42765-024-00417-5

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