Low-Cost and Highly Sensitive Wearable Sensor Based on Napkin for Health Monitoring

The development of sensors with high sensitivity, good flexibility, low cost, and capability of detecting multiple inputs is of great significance for wearable electronics. Herein, we report a napkin-based wearable capacitive sensor fabricated by a novel, low-cost, and facile strategy. The capacitiv...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2019-08, Vol.19 (15), p.3427
Hauptverfasser: Xie, Liping, Chen, Peng, Chen, Shuo, Yu, Kun, Sun, Hongbin
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The development of sensors with high sensitivity, good flexibility, low cost, and capability of detecting multiple inputs is of great significance for wearable electronics. Herein, we report a napkin-based wearable capacitive sensor fabricated by a novel, low-cost, and facile strategy. The capacitive sensor is composed of two pieces of electrode plates manufactured by spontaneous assembly of silver nanowires (NWs) on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-patterned napkin. The sensor possesses high sensitivity (>7.492 kPa ), low cost, and capability for simultaneous detection of multiple signals. We demonstrate that the capacitive sensor can be applied to identify a variety of human physiological signals, including finger motions, eye blinking, and minute wrist pulse. More interestingly, the capacitive sensor comfortably attached to the temple can simultaneously monitor eye blinking and blood pulse. The demonstrated sensor shows great prospects in the applications of human-machine interface, prosthetics, home-based healthcare, and flexible touch panels.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s19153427