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Highly stretchable and sensitive strain sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotube-coated nylon textile

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With increasing demand for wearable electronic devices, strain sensor development with a high stretchability becomes quite critical. To develop a high performance stretchable strain sensor, we used nylon textile obtained from commercial thigh-highs as substrate for coating single-walled CNT (SWNT). Using vacuum-assisted spray-layer-bylayer technique, SWNTs were uniformly coated on the surface of textile fibers. Our SWNT/nylon textile sensor exhibited high sensitivity of 72 gauge factor at 100% strain, fast response, and excellent durability. In addition, the sensors were used for human motion detection by attaching to glove and sewing with leggings. We have a great expectation that high stretchability, sensitivity, and durability of this SWNT/nylon textile strain sensor, with its simple integration to clothing, opens up new opportunities for fabrication of high performance wearable strain sensor.

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This research was supported by the Sports Promotion Fund of Seoul Olympic Sports Promotion Foundation from Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyungpook National University (KNU), 80 Daehak-ro, Buk-gu, Daegu, 41566, Korea

    Yein Lee, Juhyeon Kim & Soo-Hwan Jeong

  2. Korea Institute of Robot and Convergence, 39 Jigok-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, 37666, Korea

    Heeseon Hwang

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Lee, Y., Kim, J., Hwang, H. et al. Highly stretchable and sensitive strain sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotube-coated nylon textile. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 36, 800–806 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-019-0246-6

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