Kangqi Chang,Le Li,Chao Zhang,Piming Ma,Weifu Dong,Yunpeng Huang,Tianxi Liu
Advanced pressure sensors featuring high compressibility , high sensitivity, fast response time, and superior stability have attracted tremendous research attention because of their potential applications in artificial intelligence technology and wearable electronics. In this work, a robust sponge-like piezoresistive pressure sensor with remarkable elasticity and high sensitivity was fabricated by anchoring perpendicularly oriented MXene flakes on polyaniline (PANI) wrapped polymeric sponge via freeze-drying-assisted depositing strategy. Owing to the stable 3D conducting networks provided by PANI sponge and the intimate electrical contact between erected MXene flakes upon subtle deformation, good sensitivity, wide working range, low detection limit, fast response and recovery times, and excellent durability can be simultaneously obtained. Furthermore, various physiological activities (speech recognition, swallowing, joint movement, etc.) can also be detected in real-time and wireless manner by the flexible MXene/PANI sponge sensors, demonstrating their great potential in low-cost and high-performance wearable piezoresistive pressure sensing devices.
Yi Qin,Mengxue Wang,Xiaohan Li,Yajuan Zhang,Shenglai Tang,Jianfeng Zhu,Ting Zhao
SnSe-based materials have attracted widespread attention in thermoelectrics due to their outstanding thermoelectric performance. However, the pristine and unmodified polycrystalline SnSe reveals poor electrical properties. Doping and constructing nanostructured composite architectures to produce energy filtering effect proved to be an effective method to strengthen thermoelectric performance. In this study, Ti 3 C 2 /Sn 0.98 Cd 0.02 Se composites are successfully fabricated by the solvothermal method combined with the electrostatic self-assembly method and spark plasma sintering. The phase interface introduced by incorporating Ti 3 C 2 into Sn 0.98 Cd 0.02 Se can effectively filter low-energy carriers due to its generation of energy barriers, thereby the Seebeck coefficient of x wt% Ti 3 C 2 /Sn 0.98 Cd 0.02 Se x = (0.05, 0.5, 1) samples is better than that of the pristine Sn 0.98 Cd 0.02 Se over the whole temperature range. Meanwhile, high conductivity was also obtained in 1 wt% Ti 3 C 2 /Sn 0.98 Cd 0.02 Se sample so that the high power factor of 3.31 μWcm −1 K − 2 was acquired at 773 K. Ultimately, a peak ZT value of 0.41 was obtained at 773 K, compared with pristine Sn 0.98 Cd 0.02 Se, and the thermoelectric performance improved by 24%. This study offers an available approach to efficiently enhance the thermoelectric properties of polycrystalline SnSe-based materials.