Stretchable and highly sensitive graphene-on-polymer strain sensors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Li, Xiao ^a   Zhang, Rujing ^a   Yu, Wenjian ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Wei, Jinquan ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a   Cao, Anyuan ^b   Li, Zhihong ^b   Cheng, Yao ^a   Zheng, Quanshui ^a   Ruoff, Rodney S ^c   Zhu, Hongwei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

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EID: 84870823038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00870     Document Type: Article

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