Fabrication and application of mesh flexible strain sensor

XU Liqiang; SUN Quan; ZHAN Zheng; YANG Runhong; TANG Zhijie; LU Yebo

doi:10.13801/j.cnki.fhclxb.20220804.002

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XU Liqiang, SUN Quan, ZHAN Zheng, YANG Runhong, TANG Zhijie, LU Yebo. Fabrication and application of mesh flexible strain sensor[J]. Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica, 2023, 40(2): 970-977. doi: 10.13801/j.cnki.fhclxb.20220804.002

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XU Liqiang, SUN Quan, ZHAN Zheng, YANG Runhong, TANG Zhijie, LU Yebo. Fabrication and application of mesh flexible strain sensor[J]. Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica, 2023, 40(2): 970-977. doi: 10.13801/j.cnki.fhclxb.20220804.002

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Fabrication and application of mesh flexible strain sensor

doi: 10.13801/j.cnki.fhclxb.20220804.002

XU Liqiang^{1, 2},
SUN Quan³,
ZHAN Zheng¹,
YANG Runhong³,
TANG Zhijie³,
LU Yebo^{1, 3
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,}

1.
Key Laboratory of Medical Electronics and Digital Health of Zhejiang Province, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing 314001, China
2.
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering & Automation, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
3.
College of Information Science and Engineering, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing 314001, China

Funds: Science and Technology Bureau Project of Jiaxing (2021 AY10061); Xinmiao Talents Program of Zhejiang (2022 R417 A032); SRT Program of Jiaxing University (CD8517211438)

Received Date: 2022-05-09
Accepted Date: 2022-07-28
Rev Recd Date: 2022-06-11

Available Online: 2022-08-05

Publish Date: 2023-02-01

Abstract

Abstract

In view of the wide application of strain sensors in human motion monitoring, health monitoring and other fields, it is important to design flexible strain sensors with high sensitivity and large strain range. In this paper, the quadrilateral and hexagonal mesh flexible strain sensors were prepared by template method based on Ecoflex-graphene composites. By comparing the strain range and tensile breaking limit of two different mesh sensors, it is found that the comprehensive performance of hexagonal mesh flexible strain sensor is more excellent, and under the condition of 80% strain, the tensile/releasing fatigue life detection is carried out. The sensor shows good reliability, and the sensor performs well in monitoring the elbow joint movement and different breathing conditions of the human body. A multi-channel detection system was constructed by combining hexagonal mesh flexible strain sensors to realize multiple gesture recognition, which has a broad market application prospect in the field of artificial intelligence and motion recognition.
- flexible strain sensors,
- graphene,
- mesh structure,
- health monitoring,
- gesture recognition
Long Abstrsct
Innovation Points

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