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Highly reproducible, hysteresis-free, flexible strain sensors by inkjet printing of carbon nanotubes

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In this paper, the reproducibility of the sensitivity, the most critical parameter for sensing application, has been only marginally assessed for carbon nanotube networks (CNNs) based resistive strain sensors fabricated by inkjet-printing on flexible Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylethylene (EFTE) sheets.
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This article is published in Carbon.The article was published on 2015-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 100 citations till now.

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Recent progress on flexible and stretchable piezoresistive strain sensors: From design to application

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Graphene oxide as high-performance dielectric materials for capacitive pressure sensors

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Highly Stretchable and Wearable Strain Sensor Based on Printable Carbon Nanotube Layers/Polydimethylsiloxane Composites with Adjustable Sensitivity

TL;DR: The fabrication of highly stretchable and sensitive multidirectional strain sensors with tunable strain gauge factors by employing a digitally controlled printer to incorporate carbon nanotube layers into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrates shows great application potential in motion-detecting systems.
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Carbon Nanotube Assembly and Integration for Applications

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Bidirectional and Stretchable Piezoresistive Sensors Enabled by Multimaterial 3D Printing of Carbon Nanotube/Thermoplastic Polyurethane Nanocomposites.

TL;DR: A facile method to fabricate bidirectional strain sensors through the integration of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) and multimaterial additive manufacturing is reported, which has potential applications in wearable electronics, soft robotics, and prosthetics.
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Fabrication and characterization of inkjet-printed carbon nanotube electrode patterns on paper

TL;DR: An aqueous conductive ink of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) for inkjet printing was formulated in this article, where the authors used a kinetic ball-milling process to disperse the MWCNTs in an annealing process with naphthyl-group-based non-ionic surfactants.
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Critical assessment of thickness-dependent conductivity of thin metal films

TL;DR: In this article, the possibility of determining transport parameters for the electrical conductivity from its dependence on the film thickness (size effect) is discussed, and the experimental curves have to be fitted for very small film thickness to permit a separation of these parameters.
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High sensitivity, moisture selective, ammonia gas sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotubes functionalized with indium tin oxide nanoparticles

TL;DR: In this article, a low-cost gas sensors based on single-walled CNT (SWCNT) layers prepared on plastic substrates and operating at room temperature, displaying a high sensitivity to NH 3.
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Working mechanisms of strain sensors utilizing aligned carbon nanotube network and aerosol jet printed electrodes

TL;DR: In this article, highly sensitive aligned carbon nanotube network (CNTN)-based strain sensors produced by aerosol jet printed electrodes and polyimide substrates were revealed.
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Universal parameters for carbon nanotube network-based sensors: can nanotube sensors be reproducible?

TL;DR: A theoretical model is proposed to explain these parameters, and sensing experiments for mercury and ammonium ions using CNT network-based sensors were performed to confirm the validity of the model.
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