An Ionic Liquid as Interface Linker for Tuning Piezoresistive Sensitivity and Toughness in Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/Carbon Nanotube Composites

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 5437-5446

  Ke, Kai ^a,b   Pötschke, Petra ^a   Gao, Shanglin ^a   Voit, Brigitte ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes (CNTs); interface interactions; ionic liquid; piezoresistivity; poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)

Indexed keywords

BONDING; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; FILLED POLYMERS; FILLERS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; IONIC LIQUIDS; LIQUIDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; OHMIC CONTACTS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; TUNING; YARN;

ELECTRICAL CONTACT RESISTANCE; INTERFACE INTERACTION; PIEZORESISTIVE PROPERTIES; PIEZORESISTIVE SENSITIVITIES; PIEZORESISTIVITY; POLY (VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE)(PVDF); POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE); STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING (SHM);

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 85013054848     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b13454     Document Type: Article

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