Abstract

Sustainable engineering applications are of great significance in materials science because of limited natural resources. This study presents a sustainable, bio-based approach for the fabrication of flexible electronics and sensors by using peanut shell and skin as the precursors for conductive carbon-based fillers. Carbonized samples showed differences in terms of morphological, structural, and electrical properties. While peanut shell-based carbon showed higher crystallinity and morphology with multiple channels; peanut skin-based carbon showed stacked, layered morphology with smaller particle size. Elastic modulus of the samples increased, tensile strength, and tensile strain values were decreased for both composite sets. The electrical conductivity of the samples prepared by carbon from peanut shell showed lower percolation concentration. Both composites showed piezoresistive response under cycling loading/unloading and tunable piezoresistive sensors were shown to be sensitive to human motions including horizontal and vertical elbow movement and back and forth knee bending and squatting.

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