VITRIMER-BASED STIMULI-RESPONSIVE MXENE-CHITOSAN COMPOSITES FOR WEARABLE DEVICES
Abstract
Wearable devices can bring a new set of advantages to help monitor personalized health quickly, simply, painlessly, and continuously, without complicated equipment or visiting hospitals. For patients or athletes with health conditions, an immediate update of a physical status would be a great convenience. Specifically for the soldiers or pilots in the field, monitoring the physical condition can be crucial by enabling a better understanding of surroundings, providing an added degree of safety, and help define mission parameters that lead to a successful mission. Therefore, the ability to access physiological data is desirable to the military for the above reasons. Moreover, in order to apply into practical applications, such a wearable device has to be compact in design, comfortable to wear, harmless to humans, and easy to use. Therefore, by incorporating an emerging nanomaterial of MXene with a biomaterial of chitosan, a lightweight, flexible, and antibacterial wearable composite will be developed, as a patch type. Thus, we propose a novel hierarchically structured programmable composite material capable of stimuli-responsive features. We will investigate and fabricate vitrimer-based stimuli-responsive MXene-chitosan composites, which can change their shape, mechanical, thermal, electrical, and optical properties upon external stimuli such as electric field, light, or thermal field. A fundamentally new and innovative wearable device responding to external stimuli is suggested in the proposed research. The designed MXene-chitosan composites could be a great promise for use in a wide range of engineering fields, such as electronics, sensing devices, biomedical, and defense.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 04, 2023
- Source ID
- FA23862210133
Entities
People
- Il Yub Choi
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Sungkyunkwan University
- United States Air Force