Carbon nanotube polymer coatings for textile yarns with good strain sensing capability

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 179, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-91

  Zhang, Rui ^a   Deng, Hua ^b   Valenca, Renata ^a   Jin, Junhong ^a,c   Fu, Qiang ^b   Bilotti, Emiliano ^a   Peijs, Ton ^a,d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Composite; Conductive; Fibre; Polymer; Sensor

Indexed keywords

COATING SOLUTION; CONDUCTIVE; CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COMPOSITES; CYCLIC LOADINGS; ELASTIC YARNS; HOMOGENEOUS COATINGS; LOADING CYCLES; MULTIFILAMENT YARNS; NUMBER OF CYCLES; PARTIAL RECOVERY; POLYMER COATING; SMART TEXTILES; STRAIN SENSING; TEXTILE YARNS; THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FIBERS; POLYMERS; SENSORS; TEXTILES; WOOL; YARN;

PLASTIC COATINGS;

EID: 84860382386     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2012.03.029     Document Type: Article

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