Highly Flexible Multilayered e-Skins for Thermal-Magnetic-Mechanical Triple Sensors and Intelligent Grippers

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Shuai LiuXinglong Gong

Abstract

This work reports a novel triple-functional electronic skin (e-skin) which shows both wonderful thermal-magnetic-mechanical sensing performance and interesting magnetic actuation behavior. The flexible e-skin comprises of the thermo-sensitive, magnetic and conductive tri-components, and their sensitive characteristics under 5-70 °C, 0-1200 mT and 0.1-5.1 MΩ are studied, respectively. Owing to the unique piezoresistive characteristic and magnetorheological effect, the e-skin exhibits a rapid response time (38 ms) to the external stimuli. The assembled e-skin with triple-layer structure can act as a functional sensor to monitor various human motions, magnetic fields and environmental temperatures. Based on this e-skin, an intelligent magneto-active gripper is further developed and it can be used to grasp and transport targets by the actuated force of magnetic field under various working conditions. Importantly, the multi-functional sensing capability endows the gripper with real-time deformation and ambient temperature perception characteristics. As a result, due to the ideal multi-field coupling sensing and magnetic active features, this e-skin shows a wide prospect in wearable electronics, man-machine interaction, and intellige...Continue Reading

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