Electrospun Aligned Fibrous Arrays and Twisted Ropes: Fabrication, Mechanical and Electrical Properties, and Application in Strain Sensors

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Zheng, Jie ^a   Yan, Xu ^a   Li, Meng Meng ^a,b   Yu, Gui Feng ^a   Zhang, Hong Di ^a   Pisula, Wojciech ^b   He, Xiao Xiao ^a   Duvail, Jean Luc ^c   Long, Yun Ze ^a  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Aligned arrays; Electrical properties; Electrospinning; Strain sensors; Twisted ropes

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBERS; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; POLYACRYLONITRILES; ROPE; YARN;

ALIGNED ARRAYS; AS-SPUN FIBERS; COMPOSITE FIBERS; ELECTROSPUNS; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; STRAIN SENSORS;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

EID: 84949568978     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-1184-9     Document Type: Article

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