A Stretchable and Transparent Nanocomposite Nanogenerator for Self-Powered Physiological Monitoring
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- DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b13767
A Stretchable and Transparent Nanocomposite Nanogenerator for Self-Powered Physiological Monitoring
Abstract
Smart sensing electronic devices with good transparency, high stretchability, and self-powered sensing characteristics are essential in wearable health monitoring systems. This paper innovatively proposes a stretchable nanocomposite nanogenerator with good transparency that can be conformally attached to the human body to harvest biomechanical energy and monitor physiological signals. The work reports an innovative device that uses sprayed silver nanowires as transparent electrodes and sandwiches a nanocomposite of piezoelectric BaTiO3 and polydimethylsiloxane as the sensing layer, which exhibits good transparency and mechanical transformability with stretchable, foldable, and twistable properties. The highly flexible nanogenerator affords a good input-output linearity under the vertical force and the sensing ability to detect lateral stretching deformation up to 60% strain under piezoelectric mechanisms. Furthermore, the proposed device can effectively harvest touch energies from the human body as a single-electrode triboelectric nanogenerator. Under periodic contact and separation, a maximum output voltage of 105 V, a current density of 6.5 μA/cm2, and a power density of 102 μW/cm2 can be achieved, exhibiting a good power generation performance. Owing to the high conformability and excellent sensitivity of the nanogenerator, it can also act as a self-powered wearable sensor attached to different parts of the human body for real-time monitoring of the human physiological signals such as eye blinking, pronunciation, arm movement, and radial artery pulse. The designed nanocomposite nanogenerator shows great potential for use in self-powered e-skins and healthcare monitoring systems.
Keywords: physiological monitoring; piezoelectric nanocomposite; self-powered; strain sensor; stretchable; transparent; triboelectric.
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