Torsion-sensing material from aligned carbon nanotubes wound onto a rod demonstrating wide dynamic range

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3177-3182

  Yamada, Takeo ^a   Yamamoto, Yuki ^a   Hayamizu, Yuhei ^a   Sekiguchi, Atsuko ^a   Tanaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Kobashi, Kazufumi ^a   Futaba, Don N ^a   Hata, Kenji ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

single walled carbon nanotube; strain; torsion level; torsion sensor; transfer

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; ALIGNED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; INTERNAL NETWORK; SENSING MATERIAL; TRANSFER; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSORS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); STRAIN; THIN FILMS;

TORSIONAL STRESS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TORQUE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TORQUE;

EID: 84876523834     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305593k     Document Type: Article

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