Strain Sensors with Adjustable Sensitivity by Tailoring the Microstructure of Graphene Aerogel/PDMS Nanocomposites

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 37, 2016, Pages 24853-24861

  Wu, Shuying ^a   Ladani, Raj B ^a   Zhang, Jin ^b   Ghorbani, Kamran ^a   Zhang, Xuehua ^a   Mouritz, Adrian P ^a   Kinloch, Anthony J ^c   Wang, Chun H ^a,d  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

adjustable piezoresistivity; graphene aerogel; microstructure; polydimethylsiloxane; strain sensor

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; CHEMICAL SENSORS; FREEZING; GRAPHENE; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; PROCESS CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILICONES; UNLOADING;

CELLULAR MICROSTRUCTURE; FREEZING TEMPERATURES; GRAPHENE AEROGELS; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; PIEZO-RESISTIVE BEHAVIOR; PIEZORESISTIVITY; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; STRAIN SENSORS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84988614383     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b06012     Document Type: Article

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