Bioinspired Multifunctional Photonic-Electronic Smart Skin for Ultrasensitive Health Monitoring, for Visual and Self-Powered Sensing

  • Yi Zhao
  • , Wenchao Gao
  • , Kun Dai*
  • , Shuo Wang
  • , Zuqing Yuan
  • , Jiannan Li
  • , Wei Zhai
  • , Guoqiang Zheng
  • , Caofeng Pan*
  • , Chuntai Liu*
  • , Changyu Shen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Smart skin is highly desired to be ultrasensitive and self-powered as the medium of artificial intelligence. Here, an ultrasensitive self-powered mechanoluminescence smart skin (SPMSS) inspired by the luminescence mechanism of cephalopod skin and the ultrasensitive response of spider-slit-organ is developed. Benefitting from the unique strain-dependent microcrack structure design based on Ti3C2Tx (MXene)/carbon nanotube synergistic interaction, SPMSS possesses excellent strain sensing performances including ultralow detection limit (0.001% strain), ultrahigh sensitivity (gauge factor, GF = 3.92 × 107), ultrafast response time (5 ms), and superior durability and stability (>45 000 cycles). Synchronously, SPMSS exhibits tunable and highly sensitive mechanoluminescence (ML) features under stretching. A relationship between ML features, strain sensing performances, and the deformation has been established successfully. Importantly, the SPMSS demonstrates excellent properties as triboelectric nanogenerator (4 × 4 cm2), including ultrahigh triboelectric output (open-circuit voltage VOC = 540 V, short-circuit current ISC = 42 µA, short-circuit charge QSC = 317 nC) and power density (7.42 W m−2), endowing the smart skin with reliable power source supply and self-powered sensing ability. This bioinspired smart skin exhibits multifunctional applications in health monitoring, visual sensing, and self-powered sensing, showing great potential in artificial intelligence.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2102332
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume33
Issue number45
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Nov 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Ti C T (MXene)
  • mechanoluminescence
  • strain sensors
  • triboelectric nanogenerators
  • visual sensors

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