《Silk-Molded Flexible, Ultrasensitive, and Highly Stable Electronic Skin for Monitoring Human Physiological Signals》

  • 来源专题:绿色印刷—可穿戴电子
  • 编译者: 张宗鹏
  • 发布时间:2016-04-13
  • Abstract
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    Flexible and transparent E-skin devices are achieved by combining silk-molded micro-patterned polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) ultrathin films. The E-skin sensing device demonstrates superior sensitivity, a very low detectable pressure limit, a fast response time, and a high stability for the detection of superslight pressures, which may broaden their potential use as cost-effective wearable electronics for healthcare applications.

  • 原文来源:;http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201304248/abstract
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