Food-Inspired, High-Sensitivity Piezoresistive Graphene Hydrogels

Adel A. K. Aljarid; Kevin L. Doty; Cencen Wei; Jonathan P. Salvage; Conor S. Boland

doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c06101

Food-Inspired, High-Sensitivity Piezoresistive Graphene Hydrogels

Adel A. K. Aljarid, Kevin L. Doty, Cencen Wei, Jonathan P. Salvage, Conor S. Boland

School of Applied Sciences

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Abstract

There is a societal need for electronic materials to meet sustainability standards to facilitate the creation of easily disposed of green devices. Commonly, polymer-based materials applied to create strain-sensing devices utilize hazardous solvents and nonrecyclable resources that are unsuitable for these goals. Here, we demonstrate a simple system based on food-grade algae that we mix with a pristine, aqueous graphene suspension to create nanocomposite films that were processed into biodegradable hydrogels, again using food-based culinary products. We report our hydrogels to have record low Young’s moduli of ∼0.6 Pa for a nanocomposite and record high gauge factors of G ∼ 50 for a hydrogel system. Our sustainable graphene algae hydrogels were so sensitive that they could measure an object just 2 mg in mass, equivalent to a single rain droplet, impacting their surface.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1820–1827
Number of pages	8
Journal	ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
Volume	11
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c06101
Publication status	Published - 26 Jan 2023

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Funding Information:
A.K.A.A., K.L.D., C.W., and C.S.B. acknowledge funding from the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau and the University of Sussex Strategic Development Fund. C.S.B. thanks Oisín R. Boland for his help with revisions.

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© 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.

Keywords

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
General Chemical Engineering
Environmental Chemistry
General Chemistry
biodegradable
food-grade
nanocomposite
strain sensing
impact sensing
brown algae

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