3D printing of elastomeric mechanical sensors designed for human motion monitoring

In this thesis several advances are made to the emerging field of 3D printed mechanical sensors. Techniques and processes were developed to enable the integration of highly conductive, and capacitive and piezoresistive sensing features embedded within 3D printed elastomeric materials. With these technologies we enabled the fabrication of fully 3D printed piezoresistive and capacitive sensors for normal force, shear forces and angular bending sensing.

Integrating highly electrically conductive flexible silver films (