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Chen, Haotian; Miao, Liming; Su, Zongming; Song, Yu; Han, Mengdi; Chen, Xuexian; Cheng, Xiaoliang; Chen, Dongmin; Zhang, Haixia, E-mail: zhang-alice@pku.edu.cn2017
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[en] Highlights: • The structure of the electronic skin is inspired by human fingertip. • Fast adapting and slow adapting are achieved by two sensing mechanisms – triboelectric mechanism and piezoresistance mechanism. • The roughness sensing can be visualized measured by the number of peaks of voltage generated by the triboelectric generator. • The sensitivity of pressure sensor can be enhanced by controlling the content of CNT and porosity of CNT-PDMS. Fingertip is the region with the largest density of mechanoreceptors in human body. Inspired by its complicated anatomical structure, we design a fingertip-like electronic skin (e-skin) that can simultaneously detect the movements from lateral and vertical directions. The device includes three parts that correspond to fingerprint, epidermis and dermis of the human being, respectively. The fabricated double spiral carbon nanotube-polydimethylsiloxane (CNT-PDMS) electrodes and substrate mimic the structure of fingerprint and epidermis, respectively. Based on triboelectrification effect, the double spiral CNT-PDMS electrodes can generate alternating voltage with different frequencies when sliding across different rough surfaces, which behaves like fast adapting (FA) in real skin. Porous CNT-PDMS is used for detecting pressure, mimicking the function of slow adapting (SA) and the structure of dermis. A cost efficient way to fabricated porous CNT-PDMS is adopted and it can modulate the porosity and resistance at the same time, which provides a way to modulate its sensitivity. With the help of both sliding sensing and pressure sensing, this device can execute many complicated tasks such as differentiating roughness of surfaces and holding-releasing execution, which greatly expands the application fields of e-skin.
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S2211285517304706; Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.08.001; Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Nano Energy (Print); ISSN 2211-2855;
; v. 40; p. 65-72

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