Piezoelectric Thin Polymer Film and Nanofiber Web Based Sensors Applicable to Smart Textiles for Monitoring Vital Signals and Evaluating Energy Expenditure
Widely-used sensors for monitoring vital signals in smart textile were made by rigid semiconductors.So,in this study,physiological sensing belt (PSB) was fabricated by embedding silicone rubber/carbon black/conductive carbon layer coated polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film between elastic bands for monitoring respiration and the movement of tiiigh muscles.Furthermore,an ECG sensor was designed using eleclroless silver-plated PVDF electrospunnanofiber web as a potential replacement of the conductive Ag/AgCl gel electrode.We also prepared PVDF and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) electrospunnanofiber web for use as capacitive-type nanogenerator/pressure sensor and piezocapacitive sensor,respectively.The TPU based sensor was used as a smart insole material capable of measuring walking pattern and body weight by foot pressure.The above studies gave ample evidence on the suitability of using organic polymer/fabric based-sensors attached to smart textilesfor measuring various types of vital body signals,tiiereby resulting in management of our personal healtii.
Polyvinylidene fluoride Polyurethane Electrospinning Nanofiber webs Smart textiles
So Young Lee Kap Jin Kim
Department of Advanced Materials Engineering for Information & Electronics,College of Engineering,Kyung Hee University,Yongin-si,Gyeonggi-do 446-701,South Korea
国际会议
第六届纺织生物工程及信息国际会议(The 6th Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium )(TBIS2013)
西安
英文
153-160
2013-09-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）