Strong Strain Sensing Performance of Natural Rubber Nanocomposites

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 4860-4872

  Natarajan, Tamil Selvan ^a,b   Eshwaran, Subramani Bhagavatheswaran ^a,b   Stöckelhuber, Klaus Werner ^a   Wießner, Sven ^a,b   Pötschke, Petra ^a   Heinrich, Gert ^a,b   Das, Amit ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; conductivity; hybrid nanocomposites; natural rubber; piezoresistivity; strain sensing

Indexed keywords

CARBON BLACK; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELONGATION; FILLERS; NANOCOMPOSITES; RUBBER; SOLVENTS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; UNLOADING; YARN;

CROSS-LINKED NATURAL RUBBER; ELASTOMERIC COMPOSITE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES; LOADING-UNLOADING CYCLES; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; PIEZORESISTIVITY; STRAIN SENSING;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 85011965914     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b13074     Document Type: Article

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