Super-elastic and multifunctional graphene aerogels with multilayer cross-linked pore structure for dynamic force sensing arrays

IF 10.5 2区材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL Carbon Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI:10.1016/j.carbon.2025.120105

Wenting Zhang, Shilin Liu, Xiaoyu Liang, Jingzong He, Yonggen Lu, Qilin Wu

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Multifunctional pressure sensing aerogels are essential for flexible wearable devices, and the microstructure directly affects the macroscopic properties of the aerogels. To obtain the graphene aerogel with a multilayer cross-linked pore structure, the aerogel skeleton was constructed using the foam template method and the compression annealing graphene aerogel (CAGA) was further fabricated via the compression annealing process. Finally, the thermoplastic polyurethane composite graphene aerogel (TPU/CAGA) was successfully obtained, endowing it with excellent comprehensive properties. The TPU/CAGA exhibited high electrical conductivity of 26.4 S/m and exceptional super-elasticity. The pressure sensor based on TPU/CAGA demonstrated high sensitivity (12.5 kPa⁻¹), making it suitable for the detection of human physiological signals. Excitingly, the sensor array based on TPU/CAGA can perceive the direction and magnitude of the dynamic force in combination with the time dimension, and can present significantly different resistance signals for forces with different moving trajectories, realizing the recognition of writing traces. Additionally, its outstanding Joule heating performance and electromagnetic shielding property meet the requirements for multifunctional applications in cold outdoor environments. This study proposes a simple and intriguing strategy for pressure-sensing aerogel with significant application potential in the field of wearable devices.

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Carbon 工程技术-材料科学：综合

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期刊介绍： The journal Carbon is an international multidisciplinary forum for communicating scientific advances in the field of carbon materials. It reports new findings related to the formation, structure, properties, behaviors, and technological applications of carbons. Carbons are a broad class of ordered or disordered solid phases composed primarily of elemental carbon, including but not limited to carbon black, carbon fibers and filaments, carbon nanotubes, diamond and diamond-like carbon, fullerenes, glassy carbon, graphite, graphene, graphene-oxide, porous carbons, pyrolytic carbon, and other sp2 and non-sp2 hybridized carbon systems. Carbon is the companion title to the open access journal Carbon Trends. Relevant application areas for carbon materials include biology and medicine, catalysis, electronic, optoelectronic, spintronic, high-frequency, and photonic devices, energy storage and conversion systems, environmental applications and water treatment, smart materials and systems, and structural and thermal applications.