Highly Stretchable and Wearable Graphene Strain Sensors with Controllable Sensitivity for Human Motion Monitoring
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Because of their outstanding electrical and mechanical properties, graphene strain sensors have attracted extensive attention for electronic applications in virtual reality, robotics, medical diagnostics, and healthcare. Although several strain sensors based on graphene have been reported, the stretchability and sensitivity of these sensors remain limited, and also there is a pressing need to develop a practical fabrication process. This paper reports the fabrication and characterization of new types of graphene strain sensors based on stretchable yarns. Highly stretchable, sensitive, and wearable sensors are realized by a layer-by-layer assembly method that is simple, low-cost, scalable, and solution-processable. Because of the yarn structures, these sensors exhibit high stretchability (up to 150%) and versatility, and can detect both large- and small-scale human motions. For this study, wearable electronics are fabricated with implanted sensors that can monitor diverse human motions, including joint movement, phonation, swallowing, and breathing.
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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 [52]
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 [52]
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- Authors
- Park, J. J., Hyun, W. J., Mun, S. C., Park, Y. T., & Park, O. O.
- Affiliations
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Myongji University (KR)
- Corresponding author
- Park, O Ok
- Venue
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2015-03-10
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 6317-6324
- ISSN
- 1944-8244 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8252
- OpenAlex
- W2039191438
- Cited by
- 598
- References
- 40
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- FWCI
- 31.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (10037689)
- 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 electronics, stretchable sensors, human motion monitoring, layer-by-layer assembly, sensor sensitivity, swallowing detection, breathing detection, implantable sensors
- MeSH terms
- Clothing, Equipment Design, Feedback, Graphite, Humans, Manometry, Pressure, Sensitivity and Specificity, Transducers, Pressure, Reproducibility of Results, Monitoring, Ambulatory, Equipment Failure Analysis, Elastic Modulus, Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems, Actigraphy
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