随着智能产品的快速发展,柔性传感器在可穿戴电子领域发挥着重要的作用。综述了近年来可拉伸应变传感器的研究进展与应用,包括传感器类型和传感机理,碳材料、金属纳米材料、混合微/纳米材料等可拉伸传感器的常用材料,可拉伸应变传感器的制造方法及其在个人健康监测、人体运动检测、人机接口、康复和娱乐技术等方面的潜在应用前景,最后提出了可拉伸应变传感器面临的挑战与未来发展的方向。
With the rapid development of intelligent products,flexible sensors play an important role in the wearable electronics.This review focused on recent research advances of stretchable strain sensors and applications,including sensor types and transduction mechanisms,general materials,manufacture processes and potential applications.Common materials used in stretchable strain sensors,such as carbon materials,metal nanomaterials,mixed micro/nanomaterials,were also introduced.stretchable strain sensors also had the practical and potential applications,which focused on personal health monitoring,human motion detection,human-machine interfaces,rehabilitation and entertainment techniques.Finally,the challenges and future development of stretchable strain sensors were presented.
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基金资助
国家自然科学基金面上项目(51473122);中国博士后科学基金面上资(2016M591390);国家大学生创新训练计划(201610058035)