Capacitive soft strain sensors via multicore-shell fiber printing.

Frutiger, Andreas; Muth, Joseph T; Vogt, Daniel M; Mengüç, Yiǧit; Campo, Alexandre; Valentine, Alexander D; Walsh, Conor J; Lewis, Jennifer A · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A new method for fabricating textile integrable capacitive soft strain sensors is reported, based on multicore-shell fiber printing. The fiber sensors consist of four concentric, alternating layers of conductor and dielectric, respectively. These wearable sensors provide accurate and hysteresis-free strain measurements under both static and dynamic conditions.