- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Conducting polymers and applications
- Graphene research and applications
- Silk-based biomaterials and applications
- Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Fiber-reinforced polymer composites
- Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
- Silkworms and Sericulture Research
- Advancements in Battery Materials
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
- Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications
- Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
- Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
- MXene and MAX Phase Materials
- 2D Materials and Applications
- Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
- Dyeing and Modifying Textile Fibers
- Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
- Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
- Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies
- Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
- Nanotechnology research and applications
Beijing Graphene Institute
2019-2025
Tsinghua University
2014-2024
Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology
2024
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2024
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
2020-2024
Peking University
2020-2024
Green Chemistry
2014
A carbonized plain-weave silk fabric is fabricated into wearable and robust strain sensors, which can be stretched up to 500% show high sensitivity in a wide range. This sensor assembled devices for detection of both large subtle human activities, showing great potential monitoring motions personal health.
Recently, wearable pressure sensors have attracted tremendous attention because of their potential applications in monitoring physiological signals for human healthcare. Sensitivity and linearity are the two most essential parameters sensors. Although various designed micro/nanostructure morphologies been introduced, trade-off between sensitivity has not well balanced. Human skin, which contains force receptors a reticular layer, high even large external stimuli. Herein, inspired by skin...
The rational design of high‐performance flexible pressure sensors attracts attention because the potential applications in wearable electronics and human–machine interfacing. For practical applications, with high sensitivity low detection limit are desired. Here, ta simple process to fabricate based on biomimetic hierarchical structures highly conductive active membranes is presented. Aligned carbon nanotubes/graphene (ACNT/G) used as material microstructured polydimethylsiloxane (m‐PDMS)...
Recent years have witnessed the explosive development of electronic skin. Highly sensitive pressure sensing is one primary abilities To date, most reported skin‐like sensors are based on nanomaterials and microstructured polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) films, limiting their wide practical applications due to unknown biotoxicity redundant fabrication procedure. A cost‐effective, large‐area‐capable, biocompatible approach for high‐performance highly desired. Silk fibroin (SF) a natural protein...
Recently, wearable devices have been attracting significantly increased interest in human motion detection and physiological signal monitoring. Currently, it is still a great challenge to fabricate strain sensors with high performance good fit the body. In this work, we fabricated close-fitting graphene textile sensor based on without polymer encapsulation. Graphene oxide acts as colorant dye polyester fabric reduced at temperature, which endows excellent performance. Compared previously...
Recent years have witnessed the booming development of flexible strain sensors. To date, it is still a great challenge to fabricate sensors with both large workable range and high sensitivity. Cotton an abundant supplied natural material composed cellulose fibers has been widely used for textiles clothing. In this work, fabrication highly sensitive wearable based on commercial plain weave cotton fabric, which most popular fabric clothes, demonstrated through low‐cost scalable process. The...
We report a sweat analysis patch based on silk-derived carbon textile for simultaneous detection of six health-related biomarkers.
The unique structure of a vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) array makes it behave most similarly to blackbody. It is reported that the optical absorptivity an extremely black VACNT about 0.98-0.99 over large spectral range 200 nm-200 μm, inspiring us explore performance arrays in solar energy harvesting. In this work, we report highly efficient steam generation simply by laminating layer on surface water harvest energy. found under illumination temperature upper can significantly...
Due to its excellent flexibility, graphene has an important application prospect in epidermal electronic sensors. However, there are drawbacks current devices, such as sensitivity, range, lamination, and artistry. In this work, we have demonstrated a multilayer skin based on laser scribing graphene, whose patterns programmable. A process been developed remove the unreduced oxide. This method makes not only transferable butterflies, human bodies, any other objects inseparably elegantly,...
Flexible skin-mimicking electronics are highly desired for development of smart human-machine interfaces and wearable human-health monitors. Human skins able to simultaneously detect different information, such as touch, friction, temperature, humidity. However, due the mutual interferences sensors with functions, it is still a big challenge fabricate multifunctional electronic (E-skins). Herein, combo temperature-pressure E-skin reported through assembling temperature sensor strain in both...
Recent years have witnessed the explosive development of flexible strain sensors. Nanomaterials been widely utilized to fabricate sensors, because their high flexibility and electrical conductivity. However, fabrication processes for nanomaterials subsequent sensors are generally complicated manufactured at cost. In this work, we developed a facile dry-Meyer-rod-coating process sheath-core-structured single-fiber using ultrafine graphite flakes as sheath silk fibers core by virtue...
Protective clothing plays a vital role in safety and security. Traditional protective can protect the human body from physical injury. It is highly desirable to integrate modern wearable electronics into traditional protection suit endow it with versatile smart functions. However, still challenging through practical approach while keeping intrinsic flexibility breathability of textiles. In this work, we realized direct writing laser-induced graphene (LIG) on Kevlar textile air demonstrated...
Silkworm silk is gaining significant attention from both the textile industry and research society because of its outstanding mechanical properties lustrous appearance. The possibility creating tougher silks attracts particular interest. Carbon nanotubes graphene are widely studied for their use as reinforcement. In this work, we report mechanically enhanced directly collected by feeding Bombyx mori larval silkworms with single-walled carbon (SWNTs) graphene. We found that parts fed...
MXenes are an emerging class of highly conductive two-dimensional (2D) materials with electrochemical storage features. Oriented macroscopic Ti3C2Tx fibers can be fabricated from a colloidal 2D nematic phase dispersion. The layered ideal candidates for constructing high-speed ionic transport channels to enhance the capacitive charge performance. In this work, we assemble high degree flake orientation by wet spinning process controlled speeds and morphology spinneret. addition effects...
Abstract Achieving integrated systems with comfortability and durability comparable to traditional textiles is one of the ultimate pursuits smart wearables. This work reports a hydrophilic, breathable, biocompatible, washable graphene‐decorated electronic textile that achieved assistance silk sericin enables fabrication comfortable multisensing textiles. The prepared by dyeing commercial an aqueous graphene ink, which contains natural sericin‐coated free any artificial chemicals. conformally...
Synthetic high-performance fibers present excellent mechanical properties and promising applications in the impact protection field. However, fabricating with high strength toughness is challenging due to their intrinsic conflicts. Herein, we report a simultaneous improvement strength, toughness, modulus of heterocyclic aramid by 26%, 66%, 13%, respectively, via polymerizing small amount (0.05 wt%) short aminated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), achieving tensile 6.44 ± 0.11 GPa,...
High dynamic strength is of fundamental importance for fibrous materials that are used in high-strain rate environments. Carbon nanotube fibers one the most promising candidates. Using a strategy to optimize hierarchical structures, we fabricated carbon with 14 gigapascals (GPa) and excellent energy absorption. The performance attributed simultaneous breakage individual nanotubes delocalization impact occurs during loading process; these behaviors due improvements interfacial interactions,...
Silk georgette based wearable strain sensors are developed, which exhibit outstanding performance and great potential in monitoring full-range human motions.
Wearable heaters have attracted broad attention due to their applications in personal heating systems and healthcare management, such as heat preservation textile/clothing thermotherapy. Protecting performance against deterioration under large deformation is important for the application of wearable heaters. Here, a highly stretchable electrically driven heater based on conductive weft‐knitted fabrics reported, which can be transformed from traditional through facile treatment process. As an...
There is a growing demand for flexible electronic devices. In particular, strain sensors with high performance have attracted more and attention, because they can be attached on clothing or human skin applications in the real-time monitoring of activities. However, human-body motions that include both subtle intensive motions, many cannot meet diverse demands simultaneously. this work, silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) bridged graphene sensor developed simultaneously detecting motions. Ag NPs...
Silk has outstanding mechanical properties and biocompatibility. It been used to fabricate traditional textiles for thousands of years can be produced in large scale. materials are potentially attractive modern textile electronics. However, silk is not electrically conductive, thus limiting its applications Moreover, regenerated generally rigid brittle, which hinder post processing. Here we report the fabrication conductive wire carbon nanotube (CNT) yarns wrapped with fluffy flexible...