Highly Stretchable and Transparent Microfluidic Strain Sensors for Monitoring Human Body Motions

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 49, 2015, Pages 27562-27570

  Yoon, Sun Geun ^a   Koo, Hyung Jun ^b   Chang, Suk Tai ^a  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

human motion monitoring; ionic liquids; microfluidics; stretchable devices; transparent strain sensors

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; IONIC LIQUIDS; LIQUIDS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSPARENCY;

ELASTOMERIC MATRICES; HUMAN MOTIONS; MICROFLUIDIC NETWORKS; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNIQUES; STRAIN SENSORS; STRETCHABLE DEVICES; STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

MICROFLUIDICS;

ART; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; MICROFLUIDICS; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84950242819     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08404     Document Type: Article

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