Highly Stretchable and Sensitive Strain Sensors Using Fragmentized Graphene Foam
Korea University · Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Abstract
Stretchable electronics have recently been extensively investigated for the development of highly advanced human‐interactive devices. Here, a highly stretchable and sensitive strain sensor is fabricated based on the composite of fragmentized graphene foam (FGF) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). A graphene foam (GF) is disintegrated into 200–300 μm sized fragments while maintaining its 3D structure by using a vortex mixer, forming a percolation network of the FGFs. The strain sensor shows high sensitivity with a gauge factor of 15 to 29, which is much higher compared to the GF/PDMS strain sensor with a gauge factor of 2.2. It is attributed to the great change in the contact resistance between FGFs over the large…
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6Topics & keywords
- Gauge factor
- Materials science
- Polydimethylsiloxane
- Graphene
- Strain gauge
- Composite material
- Strain (injury)
- Bending