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Ready-To-Wear Strain Sensing Gloves For Human Motion Sensing, Sara S. Mechael, Yunyun Wu, Yiting Chen, Tricia Breen Carmichael
Ready-To-Wear Strain Sensing Gloves For Human Motion Sensing, Sara S. Mechael, Yunyun Wu, Yiting Chen, Tricia Breen Carmichael
Chemistry and Biochemistry Publications
Integrating soft sensors with wearable platforms is critical for sensor-based human augmentation, yet the fabrication of wearable sensors integrated into ready-to-wear platforms remains underdeveloped. Disposable gloves are an ideal substrate for wearable sensors that map hand-specific gestures. Here, we use solution-based metallization to prepare resistive sensing arrays directly on off-the-shelf nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) gloves. The NBR glove acts as the wearable platform while its surface roughness enhances the sensitivity of the overlying sensing array. The NBR sensors have a sheet resistance of 3.1 ± 0.6 Ω/sq and a large linear working range (two linear regions ≤70%). When stretched, the …