Tuning the Network Structure in Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites Using Carbon Black: Toward Improvements of Conductivity and Piezoresistive Sensitivity

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 14190-14199

  Ke, Kai ^a,b   Pötschke, Petra ^a   Wiegand, Niclas ^a   Krause, Beate ^a   Voit, Brigitte ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon black (CB); carbon nanotubes (CNTs); conductive network; conductive polymer nanocomposites (CPNCs); piezoresistivity

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CARBON BLACK; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; FILLERS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; YARN;

CONDUCTIVE NETWORKS; CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; PIEZORESISTIVE SENSITIVITIES; PIEZORESISTIVITY; POLY (VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE)(PVDF); POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE); STRAIN SENSOR APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING (SHM);

TENSILE STRAIN;

EID: 84973659246     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b03451     Document Type: Article

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