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Waterproof, thin, high-performance pressure sensors-hand drawing for underwater wearable applications.

ABSTRACT: Wearable sensors, especially pressure sensors, have become an indispensable part of life when reflecting human interactions and surroundings. However, the difficulties in technology and production-cost still limit their applicability in the field of human monitoring and healthcare. Herein, we propose a fabrication method with flexible, waterproof, thin, and high-performance circuits - based on hand-drawing for pressure sensors. The shape of the sensor is drawn on the pyralux film without assistance from any designing software and the wet-tissues coated by CNTs act as a sensing layer. Such sensor showed a sensitivity (~0.2 kPa^-1) while ensuring thinness (~0.26 mm) and flexibility for touch detection or breathing monitoring. More especially, our sensor is waterproof for underwater wearable applications, which is a drawback of conventional paper-based sensors. Its outstanding capability is demonstrated in a real application when detecting touch actions to control a phone, while the sensor is dipped underwater. In addition, by leveraging machine learning technology, these touch actions were processed and classified to achieve highly accurate monitoring (up to 94%). The available materials, easy fabrication techniques, and machine learning algorithms are expected to bring significant contributions to the development of hand-drawing sensors in the future.

SUBMITTER: Vu CC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8381950 | biostudies-literature |

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