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Helical core-sheath elastic yarn-based dual strain/humidity sensors with MXene sensing layer

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Flexible, stretchable and sensitive textile-based sensors play important roles in a wide variety of artificial intelligence because of its seamless integration with clothing and good comfort. Herein, MXene sensing layer is deposited on the surface of springlike helical core-sheath polyester yarns thanks to the capillarity effect and its intrinsic hydrophilic ability, and the resultant strain sensor and humidity sensor exhibit wide detection range from 0.3 to 120% strain and 30–100% relative humidity (RH) detection, owing to elastic core-sheath structures. The strain sensor shows excellent reproducibility (over 10000 cycles) and fast response time (120 ms). The core-sheath yarn sensor can detect various human motions such as walking, bending and twisting as well as physiological signal (pulse), which have great potential in real-time precise medicine and health care. The yarn sensor could also be an excellent humidity sensor because of the high specific area structure of yarn and intrinsic hydrophilic properties of MXene sensing layer.

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Financial support of this work was provided by Natural Science Foundation of China via Grant Nos. 51672141 and 21606258, Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (ZR2018QEM004), and Research and Development Program of Shandong Province of China (Grant Nos. 2019GGXI02022, 2019JZZY010340, and 2019JZZY010335), Anhui Province Special Science and Technology Project (201903a05020028).

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  1. College of Textiles and Clothing, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, People’s Republic of China

    Lihong Wang, Mingwei Tian, Yuying Zhang, Fengqiang Sun, Xiangjun Qi & Lijun Qu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Bio-Fibers and Eco-Textiles, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, People’s Republic of China

    Lihong Wang, Mingwei Tian, Yuying Zhang, Fengqiang Sun, Xiangjun Qi & Lijun Qu

  3. Collaborative Innovation Center for Eco-Textiles of Shandong Province, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, People’s Republic of China

    Lihong Wang, Mingwei Tian, Yuying Zhang, Fengqiang Sun, Xiangjun Qi & Lijun Qu

  4. School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, People’s Republic of China

    Yiming Liu

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Wang, L., Tian, M., Zhang, Y. et al. Helical core-sheath elastic yarn-based dual strain/humidity sensors with MXene sensing layer. J Mater Sci 55, 6187–6194 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-04425-9

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