Wearable and Highly Sensitive Graphene Strain Sensors for Human Motion Monitoring
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Sensing strain of soft materials in small scale has attracted increasing attention. In this work, graphene woven fabrics (GWFs) are explored for highly sensitive sensing. A flexible and wearable strain sensor is assembled by adhering the GWFs on polymer and medical tape composite film. The sensor exhibits the following features: ultra‐light, relatively good sensitivity, high reversibility, superior physical robustness, easy fabrication, ease to follow human skin deformation, and so on. Some weak human motions are chosen to test the notable resistance change, including hand clenching, phonation, expression change, blink, breath, and pulse. Because of the distinctive features of high sensitivity and reversible extensibility, the GWFs based piezoresistive sensors have wide potential applications in fields of the displays, robotics, fatigue detection, body monitoring, and so forth.
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Monitoring of human body would require sensors with a large strain range (e.g., up to 100% for joint motions) and/or high sensitivity (e.g., down to 0.1% for subtle deformations).
“Monitoring of human body would require sensors with a large strain range (e.g., to monitor large deformations associated with human joint motions, where the strain can be as large as 100%) and/or high sensitivity (e.g., to monitor subtle deformations induced by blood pulse, breathing, facial expression, and so on, where the strain can be as small as 0.1%).[6,103]”
From Nanomaterial-Enabled Wearable Sensors for Healthcare (2018) · cites this paper as [103]
Respiration rate can be accessed by measuring the deformation associated with respiration using wearable strain or pressure sensors placed on the chest, or by measuring the pressure caused by the air flow using a pressure sensor placed under the nose.
“It can be accessed by measuring the deformation associated with respiration using wearable strain [103,120,121] or pressure sensors [57] placed on the chest, or by measuring the pressure caused by the air flow using a pressure sensor placed under the nose.[141]”
From Nanomaterial-Enabled Wearable Sensors for Healthcare (2018) · cites this paper as [103]
Phonation vibrations and voice patterns can be monitored using a strain sensor or a pressure sensor attached to the neck.
“The phonation vibrations and voice patterns can be monitored using a strain sensor [44,52,103,120,121,123,126] or a pressure sensor [57,141] attached to the neck.”
From Nanomaterial-Enabled Wearable Sensors for Healthcare (2018) · cites this paper as [103]
Wearable strain sensors with a large strain detection range are widely used to monitor body motions, including finger bending, forearm muscle movements, and knee motions.
“Wearable strain sensors with a large strain detection range are widely used to monitor body motions, including finger bending, [41,52,120,123,126] forearm muscle movements, [21,44,52,103,120,123,153] and knee motions.[41,121,153]”
From Nanomaterial-Enabled Wearable Sensors for Healthcare (2018) · cites this paper as [103]
Recognizing emotional expressions such as laughing, crying, blinking eyes, and others has been realized by using strain sensors to monitor the associated skin movements.
“Recognizing emotional expressions such as laughing, [46] crying, [46] blinking eyes, [46,103] and others [44,46,103,123] has been realized by using strain sensors to monitor the associated skin movements.”
From Nanomaterial-Enabled Wearable Sensors for Healthcare (2018) · cites this paper as [103]
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- Authors
- Wang, Y., Wang, L., Yang, T., Li, X., Zang, X., Zhu, M., Wang, K., Wu, D., & Zhu, H.
- Affiliations
- Nanchang University (CN)
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing (CN)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Zhu, Hongwei
- Venue
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-04-14
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 29
- Pages
- 4666-4670
- ISSN
- 1616-301X (ISSN-L)
- 1616-3028
- OpenAlex
- W1999653735
- Cited by
- 1,085
- References
- 27
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- FWCI
- 37.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advanced Functional Materials (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Graphene research and applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
- Keywords
- wearable strain sensors, piezoresistive sensors, human motion monitoring, flexible electronics, body monitoring
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