A highly adhesive flexible strain sensor based on ultra-violet adhesive filled by graphene and carbon black for wearable monitoring

Abstract Ensuring the accuracy of signal detection under repeated deformation is a challenge for flexible sensor reported in recent years, and achieving reliable adhension between the sensor and substrate is a key factor. Here, this article reported a highly adhesive flexible strain sensor based on ultra-violet adhesive filled by modified graphene and carbon black for wearable monitoring. This strain sensor with a typical resistive behavior shows gauge factor calculated at 0∼10% strain is 2.1. It exhibits short curing time (∼1 h), fast response (∼40 ms), excellent adhesive strength (4500 kPa), and adhesiveness to various bending surfaces. Furthermore, this strain sensor can be directly prepared on elastic columns and rubber gloves, and exhibits excellent performance in three-dimensional force detection and writing gesture recognition. The ability of adhesive conformability to arbitrary and complex surfaces shows that the strain sensor has broad application prospects in wearable devices.