Seokkyoon Hong, Haozhe Zhang, Junsang Lee, Tianhao Yu, Seungse Cho, Taewoong Park, Julia Walsh, Yuhyun Ji, Joshua Jeremiah Kim, Hyowon Lee, Dong Rip Kim, Baoxing Xu, Chi Hwan Lee
Strain gauges, particularly for wearable sensing applications, require a high degree of stretchability, softness, sensitivity, selectivity, and linearity. They must also steer clear of challenges such as mechanical and electrical hysteresis, overshoot behavior, and slow response/recovery times. However, current strain gauges face challenges in satisfying all of these requirements at once due to the inevitable trade-offs between these properties. Here, we present an innovative method for creating strain gauges from spongy Ag foam through a steam-etching process...
May 10, 2024: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces