Unidirectional, highly linear strain sensors with thickness-engineered conductive films for precision control of soft machines-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Unidirectional, highly linear strain sensors with thickness-engineered conductive films for precision control of soft machines

Published:2022 Issue:26 Volume:10 Page:13673-13684
ISSN:2050-7488
Container-title:Journal of Materials Chemistry A
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Mater. Chem. A

Author:

Mousavi Saeb¹²^ORCID,Thai Mai Thanh³,Amjadi Morteza⁴^ORCID,Howard David²,Peng Shuhua¹^ORCID,Do Thanh Nho³,Wang Chun H.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia

2. The Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Pullenvale, 4069, Australia

3. Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

4. Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK EH14 4AS

Abstract

By drop-casting conductive inks onto the soft 3D printed surfaces, strain sensors of spatially-varying thickness mimicking the inherent surface undulation of the substrate are fabricated with a gauge factor of 151 over a linear strain range of ε = 97%.

Funder

University of New South Wales

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/TA/D2TA02064E

Reference49 articles.

1. Soft Somatosensitive Actuators via Embedded 3D Printing

2. Triboelectric nanogenerator sensors for soft robotics aiming at digital twin applications