Stretchable Electronic Artificial Skin with Graphene-Metallic Based Fibres

Wearable and lightweight pressure sensing devices are of paramount importance for various future applications, such as electronic, touch-on flexible displays, and healthcare, soft and energy harvesting. All the reports reviewed so far, however, suffer from the fact that the flexibility and durability of the wearable sensors.

In this project, fibre surface molecular engineering and surface lithography will be employed to develop new-generation fibre based artificial skin. Capacitance pressure responsive systems based on graphene and elastic conductive fibres will be used for designing strain gauge sensors. After this PhD training, 2D-materials and conductive textile fibre based pressure sensors mimic the properties of skin will be developed and be with prospective significant application in innovative robotics, prosthetics, and motion monitoring technologies.