Textile-Based Flexible Capacitive Pressure Sensors: A Review.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Su, Min Li, Pei Liu, Xueqin Wei, Dapeng Yang, Jun
Editor	Bala, Camelia Runowski, Marcin
Copyright Year	2022
Abstract	Flexible capacitive pressure sensors have been widely used in electronic skin, human movement and health monitoring, and human–machine interactions. Recently, electronic textiles afford a valuable alternative to traditional capacitive pressure sensors due to their merits of flexibility, light weight, air permeability, low cost, and feasibility to fit various surfaces. The textile-based functional layers can serve as electrodes, dielectrics, and substrates, and various devices with semi-textile or all-textile structures have been well developed. This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent developments in textile-based flexible capacitive pressure sensors. The latest research progresses on textile devices with sandwich structures, yarn structures, and in-plane structures are introduced, and the influences of different device structures on performance are discussed. The applications of textile-based sensors in human wearable devices, robotic sensing, and human–machine interaction are then summarized. Finally, evolutionary trends, future directions, and challenges are highlighted.
Journal	Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)
Volume Number	12
PubMed Central reference number	PMC9103991
Issue Number	9
PubMed reference number	35564203
e-ISSN	20794991
DOI	10.3390/nano12091495
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2022-04-28
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). © 2022 by the authors.
Subject Keyword	capacitive pressure sensor textile micro/nanostructure flexibility wearable electronics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemical Engineering Materials Science