Preparation of multifunctional self-healing MXene/PVA double network hydrogel wearable strain sensor for monitoring human body and organ movement

Abstract

In this work, a kind of conductive, self-healing hydrogel was prepared. Then it is assembled into a flexible wearable sensor for human motion detection and human-computer interaction. MXene/PVA-CBA hydrogel has super mechanical properties and excellent self-healing ability (1.8 s). It is assembled into a flexible sensor with high sensitivity, which can accurately detect various movements of the human body (ranging from frowning, speaking, and coughing on the face to bending of fingers and wrists, and body movements). Furthermore, it can be used for handwriting recognition. When it is installed on the artificial limb, it can realize the function of touching the capacitive screen. It solves the problem of using silicone prostheses to control the screen and has broad research potential in the field of intelligent robots. Therefore, the flexible wearable sensor composed of MXene/PVA-CBA hydrogel has great potential in human motion detection, bionic intelligent robot, and intelligent detection.