Printable elastic conductors with a high conductivity for electronic textile applications

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Matsuhisa, Naoji ^a,b   Kaltenbrunner, Martin ^a,c   Yokota, Tomoyuki ^a,c   Jinno, Hiroaki ^a   Kuribara, Kazunori ^a,e   Sekitani, Tsuyoshi ^a,c,d   Someya, Takao ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Advanced Leading Graduate Course for Photon Science (ALPS)   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 METHYL 2 PENTANONE; COPOLYMER; FLUORINE; INK; RUBBER; SILVER; SURFACTANT;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FLUORINE; SENSOR; SILVER; SUBSTRATE; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONDUCTOR; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; PHASE SEPARATION; PRINTABLE ELASTIC CONDUCTOR; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SENSOR; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 84933055359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8461     Document Type: Article

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