High-Performance Strain Sensors with Fish-Scale-Like Graphene-Sensing Layers for Full-Range Detection of Human Motions
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Strain sensors with large stretchability, broad sensing range, and high sensitivity are highly desirable because of their potential applications in electronic skins and health monitoring systems. In this paper, we report a high-performance strain sensor with a fish-scale-like graphene-sensing layer. This strain sensor can be fabricated via stretching/releasing the composite films of reduced graphene oxide and elastic tape, making the process simple, cheap, energy-saving, and scalable. It can be used to detect both stretching and bending deformations with a wide sensing range (up to 82% strain), high sensitivity (a gauge factor of 16.2 to 150), ultralow limit of detection (<0.1% strain), and excellent reliability and stability (>5000 cycles). Therefore, it is attractive and promising for practical applications, such as for the full-range detection of human motions.
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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 [126]
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 [126]
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- Authors
- Liu, Q., Chen, J., Li, Y., & Shi, G.
- Affiliations
- Tsinghua University (CN)
- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
- Corresponding author
- Shi, Gaoquan
- Venue
- ACS Nano
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2016-07-29
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 7901-7906
- ISSN
- 1936-0851 (ISSN-L)
- 1936-086X
- OpenAlex
- W2483582587
- Semantic Scholar
- 31e8017cfb21302b1e92385bc8f712fe3413513a
- Cited by
- 609
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 56 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 76 · 2021: 71 · 2020: 86 · 2019: 83 · 2018: 64 · 2017: 44 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 30.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACS Nano (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2012CB933402)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51433005)
- 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
- strain sensors, reduced graphene oxide, elastic tape, stretchable electronics, human motion detection, electronic skin, health monitoring, gauge factor, detection limit, composite films
- MeSH terms
- Graphite, Humans, Motion, Reproducibility of Results, Biosensing Techniques
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