Self-powered multifunctional sensing based on super-elastic fibers by soluble-core thermal drawing
The well-developed preform-to-fiber thermal drawing technique owns the benefit to maintain the cross-section architecture and obtain an individual micro-scale strand of fiber with the extended length up to thousand meters. In this work, we propose and demonstrate a two-step soluble-core fabrication...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1561912022-04-11T04:49:09Z Self-powered multifunctional sensing based on super-elastic fibers by soluble-core thermal drawing Chen, Mengxiao Wang, Zhe Zhang, Qichong Wang, Zhixun Liu, Wei Chen, Ming Wei, Lei School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering CNRS International NTU THALES Research Alliances Engineering::Materials::Functional materials Elastic Fiber Ion Current The well-developed preform-to-fiber thermal drawing technique owns the benefit to maintain the cross-section architecture and obtain an individual micro-scale strand of fiber with the extended length up to thousand meters. In this work, we propose and demonstrate a two-step soluble-core fabrication method by combining such an inherently scalable manufacturing method with simple post-draw processing to explore the low viscosity polymer fibers and the potential of soft fiber electronics. As a result, an ultra-stretchable conductive fiber is achieved, which maintains excellent conductivity even under 1900% strain or 1.5 kg load/impact freefalling from 0.8-m height. Moreover, by combining with triboelectric nanogenerator technique, this fiber acts as a self-powered self-adapting multi-dimensional sensor attached on sports gears to monitor sports performance while bearing sudden impacts. Next, owing to its remarkable waterproof and easy packaging properties, this fiber detector can sense different ion movements in various solutions, revealing the promising applications for large-area undersea detection. Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Ministry of Education (MOE) Nanyang Technological University National Research Foundation (NRF) Published version This work was supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (MOE2019-T2-2-127 and T2EP50120-0005), A*STAR under AME IRG (A2083c0062), the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (RG90/19 and RG73/19), and the Singapore National Research Foundation Competitive Research Program (NRF-CRP18-2017-02). We thank the Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry Co., LTD (Nippon Gohsei) for offering us the thermal processable PVA pellets (G-polymer) and giving us suggestions about this material in processing. We thank Yu Zheng for helping us take demonstration photos. 2022-04-11T04:49:08Z 2022-04-11T04:49:08Z 2021 Journal Article Chen, M., Wang, Z., Zhang, Q., Wang, Z., Liu, W., Chen, M. & Wei, L. (2021). Self-powered multifunctional sensing based on super-elastic fibers by soluble-core thermal drawing. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1416-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21729-9 2041-1723 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156191 10.1038/s41467-021-21729-9 33658511 2-s2.0-85101971983 1 12 1416 en MOE2019-T2-2-127 MOE T2EP50120-0005 A*STAR A2083c0062 MOE RG90/19 MOE RG73/19 NRF-CRP18-2017-02 Nature Communications © 2021 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. application/pdf |
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The well-developed preform-to-fiber thermal drawing technique owns the benefit to maintain the cross-section architecture and obtain an individual micro-scale strand of fiber with the extended length up to thousand meters. In this work, we propose and demonstrate a two-step soluble-core fabrication method by combining such an inherently scalable manufacturing method with simple post-draw processing to explore the low viscosity polymer fibers and the potential of soft fiber electronics. As a result, an ultra-stretchable conductive fiber is achieved, which maintains excellent conductivity even under 1900% strain or 1.5 kg load/impact freefalling from 0.8-m height. Moreover, by combining with triboelectric nanogenerator technique, this fiber acts as a self-powered self-adapting multi-dimensional sensor attached on sports gears to monitor sports performance while bearing sudden impacts. Next, owing to its remarkable waterproof and easy packaging properties, this fiber detector can sense different ion movements in various solutions, revealing the promising applications for large-area undersea detection. |
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