Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Shayan SeyedinORCiD
Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.
The recent surge in using wearable personalized devices has made it increasingly important to have flexible textile-based sensor alternatives that can be comfortably worn and can sense a wide range of body strains. Typically fabricated from rigid materials such as metals or semiconductors, conventional strain sensors can only withstand small strains and result in bulky, inflexible, and hard-to-wear devices. Textile strain sensors offer a new generation of devices that combine strain sensing functionality with wearability and high stretchability. In this review, we discuss recent exciting advances in the fabrication, performance enhancement, and applications of wearable textile strain sensors. We describe conventional and novel approaches to achieve textile strain sensors such as coating, conducting elastomeric fiber spinning, wrapping, coiling, coaxial fiber processing, and knitting. We also discuss how important performance parameters such as electrical conductivity, mechanical properties, sensitivity, sensing range, and stability are influenced by fabrication strategies to illustrate their effects on the sensing mechanism of textile sensors. We summarize the potential applications of textile sensors in structural health monitoring, wearable body movement measurements, data gloves, and entertainment. Finally, we present the challenges and opportunities that exist to date in order to provide meaningful guidelines and directions for future research.
Author(s): Seyedin S, Zhang P, Naebe M, Qin S, Chen J, Wang X, Razal JM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Materials Horizons
Year: 2019
Volume: 6
Issue: 2
Pages: 219–249
Online publication date: 10/12/2018
Acceptance date: 10/12/2018
ISSN (print): 2051-6347
ISSN (electronic): 2051-6355
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
URL: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8MH01062E
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01062E
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric
