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Self-supported Materials for Flexible/Stretchable Sensors

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There is an increasing demand on the fabrication of robust, flexible, cost-effective, and eco-friendly self-supporting materials, such as yarns, fibers, papers-like, films, and monoliths, etc., due to their promising applications in flexible sensing fields. With the unique structure and outstanding properties, various functional materials with zero-dimensional, one-dimensional, and two-dimensional structures have been employed as promising building blocks for the assembly of self-supporting materials. In this chapter, the type, key parameter, and working principles of sensors are presented. Meanwhile, we summarize the sensing properties of different self-supporting materials through detailed cases. In addition, the challenges and opportunities of current sensors based on self-supporting materials are briefly discussed.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51502306, 51675514).

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Li, Z., Huang, J., Wang, J. (2020). Self-supported Materials for Flexible/Stretchable Sensors. In: Inamuddin, Boddula, R., Asiri, A. (eds) Self-standing Substrates. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29522-6_9

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