Advanced materials characterisation for sensor materials

Abstract

This study is mainly focused on material characterisation for soft robotic sensors which would be launched in the market for commercial usage in the future. The materials which would be used for this project are piezoelectric materials, mainly Zinc Oxide (ZnO) and Molybdenum Sulfide (MoS2) and techniques required for this project includes SEM, XRD, XPS, AFM, PFM and ALD. The objective is to find out the relationship between the morphology, composition, and phase constitution with the piezo properties for the application of robotic sensors and aims to come up with sensors that can bend and stretch for different applications and at the same time, able to detect physical properties of objects, despite its minute size with high sensitivity and spatial resolution. The robotic grip sensors which we fabricate aims to find out the following properties of one’s hair condition such as the suppleness, smoothness, hydrophilicity and stickiness.