Highly stretchable electric circuits from a composite material of silver nanoparticles and elastomeric fibres

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 803-809

  Park, Minwoo ^a   Im, Jungkyun ^b   Shin, Minkwan ^a   Min, Yuho ^a   Park, Jaeyoon ^a   Cho, Heesook ^c   Park, Soojin ^c   Shim, Mun Bo ^b   Jeon, Sanghun ^b   Chung, Dae Young ^b   Bae, Jihyun ^b   Park, Jongjin ^b   Jeong, Unyong ^a   Kim, Kinam ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^c Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; FIBERS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NOZZLE DESIGN; RUBBER; RUBBER APPLICATIONS; SOLVENTS; SPRAY NOZZLES; STRAIN; STYRENE; SUBSTRATES; TIMING CIRCUITS; YARN;

BULK CONDUCTIVITIES; CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITES; CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES; FABRICATION PROCESS; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; NANOPARTICLE PRECURSORS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE; PRECURSOR SOLUTIONS;

SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

1,3 BUTADIENE DERIVATIVE; ELASTOMER; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; RUBBER; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; NANOFABRICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSOR;

EID: 84874655964     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.206     Document Type: Article

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