High-sensitivity, ultrawide linear range, antibacterial textile pressure sensor based on chitosan/MXene hierarchical architecture

It is still a great challenge for the flexible piezoresistive pressure sensors to simultaneously achieve wide linearity and high sensitivity. Herein, we propose a high-performance textile pressure sensor based on chitosan (CTS)/MXene fiber. The hierarchical ‘point to line’ architecture enables the pressure sensor with high sensitivity of 1.16 kPa-1 over a ultrawide linear range of 1.5 MPa. Furthermore, the CTS/MXene pressure sensor possess a low fatigue over 1000 loading/unloading cycles under 1.5 MPa pressure load, attributed to the strong chemical bonding between CTS fiber and MXene and excellent mechanical stability. Besides, the proposed sensor shows good antibacterial effect benefiting from the strong interaction between polycationic structure of CTS/MXene and the predominantly anionic components of bacteria surface. The sensor is also applied to detect real-time human action, an overall classification accuracy of 98.61% based on deep neural network-convolutional neural network (CNN) for six human actions is realized.