Gum Sensor: A Stretchable, Wearable, and Foldable Sensor Based on Carbon Nanotube/Chewing Gum Membrane

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 47, 2015, Pages 26195-26205

  Darabi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Khosrozadeh, Ali ^a   Wang, Quan ^a   Xing, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

bodily motion sensors; chewing gums; humid sensors; multiwalled carbon nanotubes; strain sensors

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOCHIPS; CARBON NANOTUBES; MICROARRAYS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; STRAIN; STRAIN GAGES; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY; YARN;

CHEWING GUM; CURRENT SENSORS; EXTERNAL EXCITATION; FOLDING TECHNIQUE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; MOTION SENSORS; RESISTANCE RESPONSE; STRAIN SENSORS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CARBON NANOTUBE; CHEWING GUM;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CHEWING GUM; DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHEWING GUM; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OPTICAL IMAGING; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84948799052     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08276     Document Type: Article

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