Wearable devices are being intensively investigated in an extensive range of applications, particularly in the field of human motion detection. Herein, a graphene‐modified silk fabric strain sensor is fabricated and its satisfactory performance including high sensibility and comfortable fit to the human body is reported. Graphene oxide is coated on silk fabric by vacuum filtration and is reduced by hot press method, which provides the obtained silk fabric strain sensor with good piezoresistivity and being more environmentally friendly compared with chemical reduction. Meanwhile, compared with the other strain sensors, the silk fabric strain sensor shows a linear and high resistance variation rate with increasing strain. Moreover, the fabric sensor also exhibits other excellent performances, including cycle stability, UV‐blocking, and hydrophobicity to some extent. Owing to the above advantages, the modified silk fabric sensor can be sewed together with fabric and has the potential to detect human motions.
We performed molecular dynamics simulation of nanoindentation on Cu/Ni nanotwinned multilayer films using a spherical indenter, aimed to investigate the effects of hetero-twin interface and twin thickness on hardness. We found that both twinning partial slip (TPS) and partial slip parallel with twin boundary (PSPTB) can reduce hardness and therefore should not be ignored when evaluating mechanical properties at nanoscale. There is a critical range of twin thickness λ (~25 Å < λ < ~31 Å), in which hardness of the multilayer films is maximized. At a smaller λ, TPSs appear due to the reaction between partial dislocations and twin boundary accounts for the softening-dominated mechanism. We also found that the combination of the lowered strengthening due to confined layer slips and the softening due to TPSs and PSPTBs results in lower hardness at a larger λ.
Molecular dynamics simulations of nanolaminated graphene/Cu (NGCu) and pure Cu under compression are conducted to investigate the underlying strengthening mechanism of graphene and the effect of lamella thickness. It is found that the stress-strain curves of NGCu undergo 3 regimes i.e. the elastic regime I, plastic strengthening regime II and plastic flow regime III. Incorporating graphene monolayer is proved to simultaneously contribute to the strength and ductility of the composites and the lamella thickness has a great effect on the mechanical properties of NGCu composites. Different strengthening mechanisms play main role in different regimes, the transition of mechanisms is found to be related to the deformation behavior. Graphene affected zone is developed and integrated with rule of mixtures and confined layer slip model to describe the elastic properties of NGCu and the strengthening effect of the incorporated graphene.
Inspired by diverse
shape-shifting phenomena in nature, various man-made shape programmable
materials have been developed for applications in actuators, deployable
devices, and soft robots. However, fabricating mechanically robust
shape-morphing structures with on-demand, rapid shape-transformation
capability, and high load-bearing capacity is still a great challenge.
Herein, we report a mechanically robust and rapid shape-shifting material
system enabled by the volatilization of a non-fully-reacted, volatile
component in a partially cured cross-linking network obtained from
photopolymerization. Volume shrinkage induced by the loss of the volatile
component is exploited to drive complex shape transformations. After
shape transformation, the residual monomers, cross-linkers, and photoinitiators
that cannot volatilize still exist in the network, which is ready
for a further photopolymerization to significantly stiffen the initial
material. Guided by analytic models and finite element analysis, we
experimentally demonstrate that a variety of shape transformations
can be achieved, including both 2D-to-3D and 3D-to-3D′ transformations,
such as a buckyball self-folding from a 2D hexagonal lattice sheet
and multiple pop-up structures transforming from their initial compact
configurations. Moreover, we show that an ultra-low-weight 3D Miura-ori
structure transformed from a 2D sheet can hold more than 1600 times
its weight after stiffness improvement via postcuring. This work provides
a versatile and low-cost method to fabricate rapid and robust shape-morphing
structures for potential applications in soft robots, deployable antennas,
and optical devices.
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