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Super-Stretchable Spring-Like Carbon Nanotube Ropes
Yuanyuan Shang,Xiaodong He,Yibin Li,Luhui Zhang,Zhen Li,Chunyan Ji,Enzheng Shi,Peixu Li,Ke Zhu,Qingyu Peng,Chao Wang,Xinjiang Zhang,Rongguo Wang,Jinquan Wei,Kunlin Wang,Hongwei Zhu,Dehai Wu,Anyuan Cao +17 more
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Spring-like carbon nanotube ropes consisting of perfectly arranged loops are fabricated by spinning single-walled nanotubes films, and can sustain tensile strains as high as 285%.Abstract:
Spring-like carbon nanotube ropes consisting of perfectly arranged loops are fabricated by spinning single-walled nanotube films, and can sustain tensile strains as high as 285%.read more
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Ultra-stretchable and skin-mountable strain sensors using carbon nanotubes–Ecoflex nanocomposites
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Nature-Inspired Structural Materials for Flexible Electronic Devices
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Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications
TL;DR: Many potential applications have been proposed for carbon nanotubes, including conductive and high-strength composites; energy storage and energy conversion devices; sensors; field emission displays and radiation sources; hydrogen storage media; and nanometer-sized semiconductor devices, probes, and interconnects.
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Materials and mechanics for stretchable electronics
TL;DR: Inorganic and organic electronic materials in microstructured and nanostructured forms, intimately integrated with elastomeric substrates, offer particularly attractive characteristics, with realistic pathways to sophisticated embodiments, and applications in systems ranging from electronic eyeball cameras to deformable light-emitting displays are described.
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Skin-like pressure and strain sensors based on transparent elastic films of carbon nanotubes
Darren J. Lipomi,Michael Vosgueritchian,Benjamin C. K. Tee,Sondra L. Hellstrom,Jennifer A. Lee,Courtney H. Fox,Zhenan Bao +6 more
TL;DR: Transparent, conducting spray-deposited films of single-walled carbon nanotubes are reported that can be rendered stretchable by applying strain along each axis, and then releasing this strain.
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A stretchable carbon nanotube strain sensor for human-motion detection
Takeo Yamada,Yuhei Hayamizu,Yuki Yamamoto,Yoshiki Yomogida,Ali Izadi-Najafabadi,Don N. Futaba,Kenji Hata +6 more
TL;DR: A class of wearable and stretchable devices fabricated from thin films of aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes capable of measuring strains up to 280% with high durability, fast response and low creep is reported.
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Macroscopic Fibers and Ribbons of Oriented Carbon Nanotubes
Brigitte Vigolo,Alain Pénicaud,Claude Coulon,Cédric Sauder,René Pailler,Catherine Journet,P. Bernier,Philippe Poulin +7 more
TL;DR: A simple method was used to assemble single-walled carbon nanotubes into indefinitely long ribbons and fibers, and the obtained elastic modulus is 10 times higher than the modulus of high-quality bucky paper.