Humidity Sensors: Porous Ionic Membrane Based Flexible Humidity Sensor and its Multifunctional Applications (Adv. Sci. 5/2017)

Humidity Sensors: Porous Ionic Membrane Based Flexible Humidity Sensor and its Multifunctional Applications (Adv. Sci. 5/2017)

Porous Ionic Membrane Based Flexible Humidity Sensor and its Multifunctional Applications

A highly flexible porous ionic membrane (PIM) is fabricated from a polyvinyl alcohol/KOH polymer gel electrolyte, showing well-defined 3D porous structure. The conductance of the PIM changes more than 70 times as the relative humidity (RH) increases from 10.89% to 81.75% with fast and reversible response at room temperature. In addition, the PIM-based sensor is insensitive to temperature (0-95 ...

Relative Humidity Sensors Based on Porous Polysilicon and Porous Silicon Carbide

RH sensors have been made using porous polysilicon and porous SiC, both of which can also be made porous by electrochemical anodisation in HF, similarly to single crystal silicon. We show that polysilicon can be incorporated into a humidity sensor enabling a reduction (compared to single-crystal porous Si) of the effect of temperature on humidity measurements. We show that also porous SiC can a...

Ultrafast response humidity sensor using supramolecular nanofibre and its application in monitoring breath humidity and flow

Measuring humidity in dynamic situations calls for highly sensitive fast response sensors. Here we report, a humidity sensor fabricated using solution processed supramolecular nanofibres as active resistive sensing material. The nanofibres are built via self- assembly of donor and acceptor molecules (coronene tetracarboxylate and dodecyl methyl viologen respectively) involved in charge transfer...

Printed RFID Humidity Sensor Tags for Flexible Smart Systems

Radio frequency identification (RFID) and sensing are two key technologies enabling the Internet of Things (IoT). Development of RFID tags augmented with sensing capabilities (RFID sensor tags) would allow a variety of new applications, leading to a new paradigm of the IoT. Chipless RFID sensor technology offers a low-cost solution by eliminating the need of an integrated circuit (IC) chip, and...