Sensors (Dec 2018)

Highly Stretchable Capacitive Sensor with Printed Carbon Black Electrodes on Barium Titanate Elastomer Composite

  • Eshwar Reddy Cholleti,
  • Jonathan Stringer,
  • Mahtab Assadian,
  • Virginie Battmann,
  • Chris Bowen,
  • Kean Aw

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s19010042
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 1
p. 42

Abstract

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Wearable electronics and soft robotics are emerging fields utilizing soft and stretchable sensors for a variety of wearable applications. In this paper, the fabrication of a highly stretchable capacitive sensor with a printed carbon black/Ecoflex interdigital capacitor is presented. The highly stretchable capacitive sensor was fabricated on a substrate made from barium titanate–EcoflexTM 00-30 composite, and could withstand stretching up to 100%. The designed highly stretchable capacitive sensor was robust, and showed good repeatability and consistency when stretched and relaxed for over 1000 cycles.

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