Graphene emerges as an ideal material for constructing high-performance strain sensors,due to its superior mechanical property and high conductivity.However,in the process of assembling graphene into macroscopic mater...Graphene emerges as an ideal material for constructing high-performance strain sensors,due to its superior mechanical property and high conductivity.However,in the process of assembling graphene into macroscopic materials,its conductivity decreases significantly.Also,tedious fabrication process hinders the application of graphene-based strain sensors.In this work,we report a freestanding graphene assembled film(GAF)with high conductivity((2.32±0.08)×105 S m-1).For the sensitive materials of strain sensors,it is higher than most of reported carbon nanotube and graphene materials.These advantages enable the GAF to be an ultra-low power consumption strain sensor for detecting airflow and vocal vibrations.The resistance of the GAF remains unchanged with increasing temperature(20-100℃),exhibiting a good thermal stability.Also,the GAF can be used as a strain sensor directly without any flexible substrates,which greatly simplifies the fabrication process in comparison with most reported strain sensors.Additionally,the GAF used as a pressure sensor with only^4.7μW power is investigated.This work provides a new direction for the preparation of advanced sensors with ultra-low power consumption,and the development of flexible and energy-saving electronic devices.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51701146,51672204)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(WUT:2017IB015)Foundation of National Key Laboratory on Electromagnetic Environment Effects(614220504030617)。
文摘Graphene emerges as an ideal material for constructing high-performance strain sensors,due to its superior mechanical property and high conductivity.However,in the process of assembling graphene into macroscopic materials,its conductivity decreases significantly.Also,tedious fabrication process hinders the application of graphene-based strain sensors.In this work,we report a freestanding graphene assembled film(GAF)with high conductivity((2.32±0.08)×105 S m-1).For the sensitive materials of strain sensors,it is higher than most of reported carbon nanotube and graphene materials.These advantages enable the GAF to be an ultra-low power consumption strain sensor for detecting airflow and vocal vibrations.The resistance of the GAF remains unchanged with increasing temperature(20-100℃),exhibiting a good thermal stability.Also,the GAF can be used as a strain sensor directly without any flexible substrates,which greatly simplifies the fabrication process in comparison with most reported strain sensors.Additionally,the GAF used as a pressure sensor with only^4.7μW power is investigated.This work provides a new direction for the preparation of advanced sensors with ultra-low power consumption,and the development of flexible and energy-saving electronic devices.
