Inkjet-Deposited Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Micropatterns on Stretchable PDMS-Ag Substrate-Electrode Structures for Piezoresistive Strain Sensing

Henri Ervasti; Topias Järvinen; Olli Pitkänen; Éva Bozó; Johanna Hiitola-Keinänen; Olli Heikki Huttunen; Jussi Hiltunen; Krisztian Kordas

doi:10.1021/acsami.1c04397

Inkjet-Deposited Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Micropatterns on Stretchable PDMS-Ag Substrate-Electrode Structures for Piezoresistive Strain Sensing

Henri Ervasti
, Topias Järvinen
, Olli Pitkänen
, Éva Bozó
, Johanna Hiitola-Keinänen
, Olli Heikki Huttunen
, Jussi Hiltunen
, Krisztian Kordas^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Oulu

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Abstract

Printed piezoresistive strain sensors based on stretchable roll-to-roll screen-printed silver electrodes on polydimethylsiloxane substrates and inkjet-deposited single-wall carbon nanotube micropatterns are demonstrated in this work. With the optimization of surface wetting and inkjet printing parameters, well-defined microscopic line patterns of the nanotubes with a sheet resistance of <100 ω/ could be deposited between stretchable Ag electrodes on the plasma-treated substrate. The developed stretchable devices are highly sensitive to tensile strain with a gauge factor of up to 400 and a pressure sensitivity of μ0.09 Pa-1, respond to bending down to a radius of 1.5 mm, and are suitable for mounting on the skin to monitor and resolve various movements of the human body such as cardiac cycle, breathing, and finger flexing. This study indicates that inkjet deposition of nanomaterials can complement well other printing technologies to produce flexible and stretchable devices in a versatile manner.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	27284-27294
Journal	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Volume	13
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c04397
Publication status	Published - 16 Jun 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

We thank Arttu Korhonen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Tuomo Siponkoski, and Petra Palvölgyi (both with the University of Oulu) for their technical assistance. Financial support was received partly from EU Interreg Nord—Lapin liitto (project Transparent, conducting and flexible films for electrodes), and University of Oulu (projects Entity and PoC: Ultralow permittivity and loss porous nanocomposites for future 6G telecommunication). Printed Intelligence Infrastructure (PII-FIRI, grant no. 320020) is acknowledged. Part of the work was carried out with the support of the Centre for Material Analysis, University of Oulu, Finland.

Keywords

piezoresistive sensing
pressure, and bending sensors
printed electronics
strain
stretchable materials and devices

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Ervasti, H., Järvinen, T., Pitkänen, O., Bozó, É., Hiitola-Keinänen, J., Huttunen, O. H., Hiltunen, J., & Kordas, K. (2021). Inkjet-Deposited Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Micropatterns on Stretchable PDMS-Ag Substrate-Electrode Structures for Piezoresistive Strain Sensing. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(23), 27284-27294. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c04397

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