Issue 45, 2020

Improved dielectricity of anisotropic wood slices and bioinspired micropatterned film electrodes for highly sensitive flexible electronic sensors

Abstract

Taking inspiration and utilizing materials directly from nature, a simple and green strategy to fabricate biomass-based highly sensitive flexible tactile sensors was developed. Capacitive sensing devices were constructed by stacking a conductive micropatterned PDMS bottom electrode, an anisotropic wood slice/ionic liquid (IL@wood) dielectric layer and an unpatterned PDMS top electrode. After IL impregnation, the wood cross slice (CS) had an average weight gain rate (Rw) and an improved relative dielectric constant (εr) of 493.9% and 32.6, respectively, while those of the axial one were 82.1% and 6.6. The sensor made of an IL@wood cross (IL@CS) section and a lotus-leaf-like PDMS/silver nanowire (AgNWs@PDMS) film had a maximum capacitance value in the order of 100 μF cm−2 under 80 kPa compression, thereby exhibiting outstanding signal-to-noise ratio and responsive stability of the device. Its sensitivity reached 2.09 kPa−1 without obvious attenuation after 500 cycles. Additionally, it could not only monitor multiple motions including speaking, chewing and wrist bending but also decode handwriting and detect temperature variations.

Graphical abstract: Improved dielectricity of anisotropic wood slices and bioinspired micropatterned film electrodes for highly sensitive flexible electronic sensors

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Aug 2020
Accepted
02 Oct 2020
First published
02 Oct 2020

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020,8, 16113-16120

Improved dielectricity of anisotropic wood slices and bioinspired micropatterned film electrodes for highly sensitive flexible electronic sensors

K. Nie, Z. Wang, H. Zhou, R. Tang, X. Shen and Q. Sun, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 16113 DOI: 10.1039/D0TC03729J

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements