Stretchable, Biocompatible, and Multifunctional Silk Fibroin-Based Hydrogels toward Wearable Strain/Pressure Sensors and Triboelectric Nanogenerators

被引:370
作者
He, Faliang [1 ]
You, Xingyan [1 ]
Gong, Hao [1 ]
Yang, Yun [1 ]
Bai, Tian [1 ]
Wang, Weiguo [1 ]
Guo, Wenxi [1 ]
Liu, Xiangyang [1 ,2 ]
Ye, Meidan [1 ]
机构
[1] Xiamen Univ, Res Inst Biomimet & Soft Matter, Fujian Prov Key Lab Soft Funct Mat Res, Dept Phys, Xiamen 361005, Peoples R China
[2] Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Phys, Fac Sci, Singapore 119077, Singapore
关键词
silk fibroin; hydrogel; strain/pressure sensors; human motion; triboelectric nanogenerators;
D O I
10.1021/acsami.9b19721
中图分类号
TB3 [工程材料学];
学科分类号
0805 ; 080502 ;
摘要
Nowadays, great effort has been devoted to establishing wearable electronics with excellent stretchability, high sensitivity, good mechanical strength, and multifunctional characteristics. Herein, a soft conductive hydrogel is rationally designed by proportionally mixing silk fibroin, polyacrylamide, graphene oxide, and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate). The resultant hydrogel has considerable stretchability and compressibility, which enables it to be assembled into a strain/pressure sensor with a wide sensing range (strain, 2%-600%; pressure, 0.5-119.4 kPa) and reliable stability. Then, the corresponding sensor is capable of monitoring a series of physical signals of the human body (e.g., joint movement, facial gesture, pulse, breathing, etc.). In particular, the hydrogel-based sensor is biocompatible, with no anaphylactic reaction on human skin. More interestingly, this conductive hydrogel exhibits a positive response when it works in a triboelectric nanogenerator; consequently, it lights up 20 commericial green light-emitting diodes. Thus, this silk fibroin-based hydrogel is a kind of multifunctional material toward wearable electronics with versatile applications in health and exercise monitors, soft robots, and power sources.
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页码:6442 / 6450
页数:9
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