Ultrasensitive strain sensors made from metal-coated carbon nanofiller/epoxy composites

Carbon

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 202-212

  Hu, Ning ^a   Itoi, Takaomi ^a   Akagi, Taro ^a   Kojima, Takashi ^a   Xue, Junmin ^b   Yan, Cheng ^c   Atobe, Satoshi ^d   Fukunaga, Hisao ^d   Yuan, Weifeng ^e   Ning, Huiming ^a   Surina, ^a   Liu, Yaolu ^a   Alamusi, ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUGE FACTORS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; METAL-COATED; NANO-FILLERS; NANOFILLER; SILVER COATINGS; STRAIN SENSITIVITY; STRAIN SENSORS; ULTRASENSITIVE; VAPOR GROWTH;

CARBON FIBERS; METAL COATINGS; SILVER PLATING; STRAIN GAGES;

SENSORS;

EID: 84868098057     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.08.029     Document Type: Article

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