A soft strain sensor based on ionic and metal liquids

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3405-3414

  Chossat, Jean Baptiste ^a   Park, Yong Lae ^b   Wood, Robert J ^b   Duchaine, Vincent ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

eutectic gallium indium (eGaIn); ionic solution; microfluidics; strain measurement; Wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE LIQUIDS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; EMBEDDED MICROCHANNELS; EUTECTIC GALLIUM INDIUMS (EGAIN); IONIC SOLUTIONS; NICKEL NANOPARTICLES; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; WEARABLE SENSORS;

ELASTOMERS; EUTECTICS; GALLIUM; INDIUM ALLOYS; IONIC LIQUIDS; MICROFLUIDICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILICONES; STRAIN; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

SENSORS;

EID: 84882407315     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2013.2263797     Document Type: Article

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