Facile fabrication of three-dimensional graphene foam/ poly(dimethylsiloxane) composites and their potential application as strain sensor

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 13455-13460

  Xu, Rongqing ^a   Lu, Yunqing ^a   Jiang, Chunhui ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Mao, Peng ^b   Gao, Guanghua ^a   Zhang, Labao ^b   Wu, Shan ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bending sensitivity; environmental; flexible; principle of mechanics of material; strain sensor; three dimensional graphene foam poly(dimethylsiloxane) composite

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ETHYLENE; FABRICATION; GRAPHENE; MICROCHANNELS; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

DIMETHYLSILOXANE; ENVIRONMENTAL; FLEXIBLE; MECHANICS OF MATERIALS; STRAIN SENSORS;

FOAMS;

EID: 84906810112     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am502208g     Document Type: Article

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