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ArticleNature materials2024

Creep-free polyelectrolyte elastomer for drift-free iontronic sensing.

Yunfeng He, Yu Cheng, Canhui Yang, Chuan Fei Guo

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Article in Nature materials, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44 citing papers in PubMed, 168 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yunfeng He *Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Soft Mechanics and Smart Manufacturing, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6810-8630
Yu Cheng *Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P. R. China.
Canhui YangShenzhen Key Laboratory of Soft Mechanics and Smart Manufacturing, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P. R. China. yangch@sustech.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5674-834X
Chuan Fei GuoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P. R. China. guocf@sustech.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4513-3117
Southern University of Science and Technology · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial pressure sensors often use soft materials to achieve skin-like softness, but the viscoelastic creep of soft materials and the ion leakage, specifically for ionic conductors, cause signal drift and inaccurate measurement. Here we report drift-free iontronic sensing by designing and copolymerizing a leakage-free and creep-free polyelectrolyte elastomer containing two types of segments: charged segments having fixed cations to prevent ion leakage and neutral slippery segments with a high crosslink density for low creep. We show that an iontronic sensor using the polyelectrolyte elastomer barely drifts under an ultrahigh static pressure of 500 kPa (close to its Young's modulus), exhibits a drift rate two to three orders of magnitude lower than that of the sensors adopting conventional ionic conductors and enables steady and accurate control for robotic manipulation. Such drift-free iontronic sensing represents a step towards highly accurate sensing in robotics and beyond.

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