Overtwisted, resolvable carbon nanotube yarn entanglement as strain sensors and rotational actuators

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 8128-8135

  Li, Yibin ^a,b   Shang, Yuanyuan ^a,b   He, Xiaodong ^a   Peng, Qingyu ^a   Du, Shanyi ^a   Shi, Enzheng ^b   Wu, Shiting ^b   Li, Zhen ^c   Li, Peixu ^c   Cao, Anyuan ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube yarn; entanglement; rotational actuator; stain sensor; twist

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE YARNS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; ENTANGLEMENT; HIERARCHICAL ARCHITECTURES; HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; ROTATIONAL ACTUATION; SELF-ASSEMBLED SYSTEMS; TWIST;

ACTUATORS; CARBON NANOTUBES; SENSORS; WOOL;

YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOFIBER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ROTATION; TORQUE; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ELASTIC MODULUS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOFIBERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; ROTATION; TORQUE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84884929195     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403400c     Document Type: Article

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