Issue 6, 2024

Fabrication of a high performance flexible capacitive porous GO/PDMS pressure sensor based on droplet microfluidic technology

Abstract

Porous structures are an effective way to improve the performance of flexible capacitive sensors, but the pore size uniformity of porous structures is not easily controlled by current methods, which may affect the inconsistent performance of different batches of sensors. In this paper, a high performance capacitive flexible porous GO/PDMS pressure sensor was prepared based on droplet microfluidic technology. By testing the performance of the sensor, we found that the sensor with a flow rate ratio of 1 : 3 has relatively good performance, with a degree of hysteresis (DH) of 8.64% and a coefficient of variation (CV) of 5.2%. Therefore, we studied the sensor performance based on this process. The result shows that the sensitivity of the flexible capacitive porous GO/PDMS pressure sensor reached 0.627 kPa−1 at low pressure (0–3 kPa), which is significantly higher than that of the pure PDMS thin film sensor (about 0.031 kPa−1) and the porous PDMS pressure sensor (0.263 kPa−1). At the same time, the sensor has a large range with a fast response time of 240 ms and a relaxation time of 300 ms at 30 kPa and an ultra-low detection limit (70 Pa). It can maintain stable operation under continuous force loading/unloading cycles and can respond well to different pressure step changes, so the sensor can be used to detect the movement process of each finger, knee, foot and other joints of the human body. In conclusion, the droplet microfluidic technology can effectively prepare high-performance capacitive flexible porous GO/PDMS pressure sensors.

Graphical abstract: Fabrication of a high performance flexible capacitive porous GO/PDMS pressure sensor based on droplet microfluidic technology

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Jan 2024
Accepted
22 Jan 2024
First published
02 Feb 2024

Lab Chip, 2024,24, 1668-1675

Fabrication of a high performance flexible capacitive porous GO/PDMS pressure sensor based on droplet microfluidic technology

S. Pan, T. Zhang, C. Zhang, N. Liao, M. Zhang and T. Zhao, Lab Chip, 2024, 24, 1668 DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00021H

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