Recent Advances in Graphene-Based Pressure Sensors: A Review

Abstract

In recent years, pressure sensors have been widely used as crucial technology components in industrial, healthcare, consumer electronics, and automotive safety applications. With the development of intelligent technologies, there is a growing demand for pressure sensors with higher sensitivity, smaller size, and wider detection range. Graphene and its derivatives, as novel emerging materials in recent years, have received widespread attention from researchers due to their unique mechanical and electrical properties, and are considered as promising sensing materials for the high-performance pressure sensors. In general, graphene-based pressure sensors can be classified into flexible pressure sensors and gas pressure sensors. In this paper, we firstly introduce the basic properties of graphene and its derivatives and then review the research progress of both graphene-based flexible pressure sensors and graphene-based gas pressure sensors respectively, focusing on different sensing mechanisms. Finally, the application prospects of graphene-based pressure sensors as well as future challenges are discussed.

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