A Conductive Bamboo Fabric with Controllable Resistance for Tailoring Wearable Sensors

Force-sensitive textile sensors are becoming a research hotspot as a part of wearable devices. The core research topic is the method to obtain the sensing property, which decides the sensitivity and service performance of the sensors. Here, we introduce a new sensing mechanism based on a statistical change of contact resistance that exhibits an exponential decay upon strain or pressure, where a novel conductive bamboo fabric is prepared and the dependence of electric conductivity on the fabric structure is discovered. The fabric surface resistivity (ρ