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A skin-like stretchable colorimetric temperature sensor

皮肤式可拉伸变色温度传感器

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Wearable and stretchable physical sensors that can conformally contact on the surface of organs or skin provide a new opportunity for human-activity monitoring and personal healthcare. Particularly, various attempts have been made in exploiting wearable and conformal sensors for thermal characterization of human skin. In this respect, skin-mounted thermochromic films show great capabilities in body temperature sensing. Thermochromic temperature sensors are attractive because of their easy signal analysis and optical recording, such as color transition and fluorescence emission change upon thermal stimuli. Here, desirable mechanical properties that match epidermis are obtained by physical crosslinking of polydiacetylene (PDA) and transparent elastomeric polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) networks. The resulting PDA film displayed thermochromic and thermofluorescent transition temperature in the range of 25–85°C, with stretchability up to 300% and a skin-like Young’s modulus of ~230 kPa. This easy signal-handling provides excellent references for further design of convenient noninvasive sensing systems.

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可穿戴传感器最主要的形式为直接与皮肤接触式, 用于测量各种皮肤表面参数. 一种创新型的传感器使用柔软和极端轻薄的材料, 其机械性质和延展性与人体表皮相似, 因此也被称为表皮传感器. 表皮传感器能够自发地附着在皮肤上, 顺应皮肤的表面形态. 本论文利 用PCDA聚合后的热致变色特性, 及PDMS高分子基体良好的拉伸性, 通过物理交联的方法, 制备了可拉伸的柔性热致变色温度传感器. 对 PDA/PDMS薄膜进行热致变色及力学性能探究发现PDA薄膜具有较低的变色温度区间25–85°C, 其断裂延伸率平均可达300%, 杨氏模量 接近表皮约为230 kPa. 该方法为发展生物相容性传感体系提供了良好的理论与实际参考.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB0700300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51503014 and This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB0700300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51503014 and 51501008), and the State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials (2016Z-03).

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    Yingzhi Chen  (陈颖芝), Yin Xi  (席崟), Wenhao Li  (李文昊), Jingyuan Li  (李静媛) & Lu-Ning Wang  (王鲁宁)

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

    Yujie Ke  (柯宇杰) & Yi Long  (龙祎)

  3. State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Lu-Ning Wang  (王鲁宁)

  4. Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China

    Xiaohong Zhang  (张晓宏)

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Yingzhi Chen is a Lecturer of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. Her research mainly focuses on the design, fabrication of optoelectronic compounds & devices, as well as novel biomedical materials.

Lu-Ning Wang is a Thousand Youth Talent, Professor and Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. His research mainly focuses on the design, preparation, theoretical study of novel biomedical materials. He has published more than 20 peer reviewed papers, and is an editorial board member of International Journal of Nanomedicine.

Xiaohong Zhang is a Chang Jiang Scholar, Professor and Vice President of Soochow University. His research interests include organic optoelectronic materials, semiconductor nanomaterials, and optoelectronic devices. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed papers and applied more than 40 patents.

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Chen, Y., Xi, Y., Ke, Y. et al. A skin-like stretchable colorimetric temperature sensor. Sci. China Mater. 61, 969–976 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-018-9266-8

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