Abstract
Ceramic doped-polymer structures as organic and inorganic hybrid structures constitute a new area of advanced materials for flexible and stretchable sensors and actuators. Here, uniform ceramic-polymer composites of tetragonal BaTiO3 and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) were prepared using solution casting to improve the pressure sensitivity. By introducing Ba–TiO3 nanoparticles to PVDF nanofibers, piezoelectricity and pressure sensitivity of hybrid nanofiber mats were significantly improved. In addition, we proposed a novel flexible and stretchable multilayered pressure sensor composed of electrospun nanocomposite fibers with high electrical sensitivity up to 6 mV N−1 compared to 1.88 mV N−1 for the pure PVDF sensors upon the application of cyclic loads at 2.5 Hz frequency and a constant load of 0.5 N. Indeed, this work provides a composition-dependent approach for the fabrication of nanostructures for pressure sensors in a wide variety of wearable devices and technologies.
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