Trends on Carbon Nanotube-Based Flexible and Wearable Sensors via Electrochemical and Mechanical Stimuli: A Review

Anthony Palumbo, Zheqi Li, Eui Hyeok Yang

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Abstract

Flexible and wearable sensors increasingly draw attention owing to their advantages of providing lightweight, portable, wearable, or implantable capabilities. Along with the development of flexible materials toward wearable devices, flexible sensors operating via electrochemical and mechanical stimuli demonstrate promise to fulfill potential healthcare and robotics applications, including artificial muscles, health monitoring, human motion detection, soft robotic skin, and human-machine interfaces. This review focuses on carbon nanotube (CNT)-based flexible sensors to detect diverse chemical species and mechanical forces. Often, combined with polymers to imbue flexibility, CNT-based flexible sensors enable specific and stable detections of mechanical deformations and electrochemical analytes while withstanding various mechanical loads, including stretching, bending, and twisting.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)20102-20125
Number of pages24
JournalIEEE Sensors Journal
Volume22
Issue number21
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2022

Keywords

  • Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
  • electrochemical sensor
  • flexible sensor
  • mechanical sensor
  • wearable electronics

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