材料科学
电容感应
扭转(腹足类)
电容
液态金属
弹性体
捆绑
复合材料
软机器人
纳米技术
可伸缩电子设备
数码产品
光电子学
电极
电气工程
执行机构
物理化学
外科
化学
工程类
医学
作者
Christopher B. Cooper,Kuralamudhan Arutselvan,Ying Liu,Daniel P. Armstrong,Yiliang Lin,M. Rashed Khan,Jan Genzer,Michael D. Dickey
标识
DOI:10.1002/adfm.201605630
摘要
Soft and stretchable sensors have the potential to be incorporated into soft robotics and conformal electronics. Liquid metals represent a promising class of materials for creating these sensors because they can undergo large deformations while retaining electrical continuity. Incorporating liquid metal into hollow elastomeric capillaries results in fibers that can integrate with textiles, comply with complex surfaces, and be mass produced at high speeds. Liquid metal is injected into the core of hollow and extremely stretchable elastomeric fibers and the resulting fibers are intertwined into a helix to fabricate capacitive sensors of torsion, strain, and touch. Twisting or elongating the fibers changes the geometry and, thus, the capacitance between the fibers in a predictable way. These sensors offer a simple mechanism to measure torsion up to 800 rad m −1 —two orders of magnitude higher than current torsion sensors. These intertwined fibers can also sense strain capacitively. In a complementary embodiment, the fibers are injected with different lengths of liquid metal to create sensors capable of distinguishing touch along the length of a small bundle of fibers via self‐capacitance. The three capacitive‐based modes of sensing described here may enable new sensing applications that employ the unique attributes of stretchable fibers.
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