Development of highly sensitive flexible tactile sensor based on mulberry paper

Professor Jongbaeg Kim’s research team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering developed a tactile sensor which was selected as the back cover paper of a renowned material science journal ‘Advanced Materials Technologies’ (Impact Factor: 7.848, Volume 7 Issue 2). In this paper, we proposed a flexible tactile sensor based on carbon nanotubes- and silver nanoparticles-coated mulberry paper through an inkjet printing process. The mulberry paper has a highly porous structure, and the property allowed the sensor to achieve high sensitivity and a wide sensing range. In addition, its applications as a multi-directional force measurement and a wearable device were demonstrated.

The link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.202100428