A wearable and highly sensitive pressure sensor with ultrathin gold nanowires

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gong, Shu ^a,b   Schwalb, Willem ^c   Wang, Yongwei ^a,b   Chen, Yi ^a   Tang, Yue ^a,b   Si, Jye ^a   Shirinzadeh, Bijan ^c   Cheng, Wenlong ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE CENTRE FOR NANOFABRICATION   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84893862009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4132     Document Type: Article

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