Self-Healing and Antibacterial Essential Oil-Loaded Mesoporous Silica/Polyacrylate Hybrid Hydrogel for High-Performance Wearable Body-Strain Sensing

• DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c03406
• Publication Date: 2022-05-02T18:58:40Z
• Authors: Han Liu; Yezhou Ni; Jing Hu; Yameng Jin; Peng Gu; Hua Qiu; Kunlin Chen
• Keywords: Wearable Technology; Flexible Electronics; Piezoresistive effect

Flexible electronics have aroused great interest over the past few years due to their unique advantages of being wearable and lightweight. Introducing self-healing function into will contribute practical applications by prolonging devices' lifetime. In this study, a flexible essential oil (EO)-loaded mesoporous silica (EO@AMS)/polyacrylate hybrid hydrogel with superb antibacterial properties was prepared. The prepared found excellent piezoresistive sensing performance, which could be particularly suitable for human vital activity monitoring. Benefiting from strong ionic bonding multiple hydrogen bonds between polyacrylate EO@AMS, repair its damaged areas restored mechanical properties, suggested ability. addition, hydrogel, when applied in devices, high ability owing slow release lemon EO AMS kill bacteria. This promising shows application posture monitoring, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence.