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Highly Sensitive Textile Strain Sensors and Wireless User-Interface Devices Using All-Polymeric Conducting Fibers
Emulation of diverse electronic devices
on textile platform is considered as a promising approach for implementing
wearable smart electronics. Of particular, the development of multifunctional
polymeric fibers and their integration in common fabrics have been
extensively researched for human friendly wearable platforms. Here
we report a successful emulation of multifunctional body-motion sensors
and user-interface (UI) devices in textile platform by using in situ
polymerized polyÂ(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)-coated fibers.
With the integration of PEDOT fibers in a fabric, via an optimization
of the fiber pattern design, multifunctional textile sensors such
as highly sensitive and reliable strain sensors (with maximum gauge
factor of ∼1), body-motion monitoring sensors, touch sensors,
and multilevel strain recognition UI devices were successfully emulated.
We demonstrate the facile utilization of the textile-based multifunctional
sensors and UI devices by implementing in a wireless system that is
capable of expressing American Sign Language through predefined hand
gestures