Sensitive, high-strain, high-rate bodily motion sensors based on graphene-rubber composites

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8819-8830

  Boland, Conor S ^a   Khan, Umar ^a   Backes, Claudia ^a   O'Neill, Arlene ^a   McCauley, Joe ^a   Duane, Shane ^a   Shanker, Ravi ^b   Liu, Yang ^b   Jurewicz, Izabela ^b   Dalton, Alan B ^b   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bodily motion sensors; dynamic strain; grapheme rubber composites; strain sensors

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; RUBBER; STRAIN; WEARABLE SENSORS;

CONDUCTING COMPOSITES; DYNAMIC STRAIN; EXFOLIATED GRAPHENE; MOTION SENSORS; RUBBER COMPOSITE; STRAIN SENSORS; TRACK DYNAMICS; VIBRATION FREQUENCY;

STRAIN RATE;

GRAPHITE; RUBBER;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING;

ELASTICITY; GRAPHITE; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MOVEMENT; RUBBER; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84919937169     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503454h     Document Type: Article

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