Wearable, wireless gas sensors using highly stretchable and transparent structures of nanowires and graphene

Jihun Park, Joohee Kim, Kukjoo Kim, So Yun Kim, Woon Hyung Cheong, Kyeongmin Park, Joo Hyeb Song, Gyeongho Namgoong, Jae Joon Kim, Jaeyeong Heo, Franklin Bien, Jang Ung Park

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Abstract

Herein, we report the fabrication of a highly stretchable, transparent gas sensor based on silver nanowire-graphene hybrid nanostructures. Due to its superb mechanical and optical characteristics, the fabricated sensor demonstrates outstanding and stable performances even under extreme mechanical deformation (stable until 20% of strain). The integration of a Bluetooth system or an inductive antenna enables the wireless operation of the sensor. In addition, the mechanical robustness of the materials allows the device to be transferred onto various nonplanar substrates, including a watch, a bicycle light, and the leaves of live plants, thereby achieving next-generation sensing electronics for the 'Internet of Things' area.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10591-10597
Number of pages7
JournalNanoscale
Volume8
Issue number20
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016 May 28

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of Korea through the Basic Science Research Program of the National Research Foundation (2013R1A2A2A01068542), the Technology Innovation Program (Grant 10044410), the Nano Material Technology Development Program (2015M3A7B4050308), the Convergence Technology Development Program for Bionic Arm (NRF-2014M3C1B2048198), the Pioneer Research Center Program (NRF-2014M3C1A3001208), and the Development Program of Interconnection System and Process for Flexible Three Dimensional Heterogeneous Devices (10052675). Also, the authors thank Samsung Display and financial support by the Development Program of Manufacturing Technology for Flexible Electronics with High Performance (SC0970) funded by the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, and by the Development Program of Internet of Nature System (1.150090.01) funded by UNIST.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Materials Science(all)

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