Facile and Controllable Ultrasonic Nebulization Method for Fabricating Ti3C2Tx‐Based Strain Sensor and Monitoring of Human Motion and Sound Wave

Abstract

Abstract Flexible and wearable electronic devices hold great potential in electronic skins, health monitoring systems and soft robotics. Among them, flexible strain sensors with high performance are key components for wearable health monitoring devices. However, the facile and controllable preparation of highly sensitive sensors still faces significant challenges. By virtue of excellent conductivity of 2D transition metal carbids (MXenes), this work reports a facile and low‐cost fabrication strategy for large‐scale production of strain sensors. The sensitive layer is deposited on flexible interdigital electrodes by ultrasonic nebulization of Ti3C2Tx nanosheets. By controlling the nebulization time, different thicknesses of Ti3C2Tx films has a great influence on the performance of strain sensors. The Ti3C2Tx‐based strain sensor exhibits good sensing performances such as high GF (19.1) in the low strain range (≈0.25%–1.14%), short response time (0.7 s), and stable durability (over 1000 cycles). In practice, the potential applications of the strain sensor in sound frequency detection, human physiological signal monitoring and facial expression recognition are demonstrated. Finally, this work integrates the strain sensor with a miniaturized analyzer to assemble a wearable motion monitoring device for mobile healthcare. This study provides a facile strategy for fabricating flexible strain sensors in the field of wearable electronics.

Keywords

• human motion monitoring
• Mxene
• strain sensors
• ultrasonic nebulization