Premium
Simple dispersion of graphene incorporated rubber composite for resistive pressure sensor application
Author(s) -
Marlinda Ab Rahman,
Kamaruddin Nurul Hazierah,
Fadilah Abd Wahab,
Said Mardhiah,
Hamizi Nor Aliya,
Johan Mohd Rafie
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.25668
Subject(s) - materials science , graphene , natural rubber , pressure sensor , composite number , resistive touchscreen , dispersion (optics) , composite material , casting , nanotechnology , optics , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , physics , engineering
We developed a resistive pressure sensor based on stand‐alone film graphene incorporated natural rubber latex (NR/G) composite fabricated in a simple solution casting method. The graphene dispersion had multilayer properties and an average lateral size of ~60 nm successfully incorporated into the NR matrix to form bilayer graphene composite with the I 2D /I G calculated ratio of 1.301. The pressure sensor shows high sensitivity (~ 0.2 kPa −1 ), high cycle stability, and selective response to the applied pressure with a linear relationship of ~6.0 kPa. This work shows that graphene incorporated natural rubber latex pressure sensors with applicable potentials for smart wearable devices to allow pressure detection.