Hierarchically buckled sheath-core fibers for superelastic electronics, sensors, and muscles
Abstract
Think how useful a stretchable electronic “skin” could be. For example you could place it over an aircraft fuselage or a body to create a network of sensors, processors, energy stores, or artificial muscles. But it is difficult to make electronic interconnects and strain sensors that can stretch over such surfaces. Liu et al. created superelastic conducting fibers by depositing carbon nanotube sheets onto a prestretched rubber core (see the Perspective by Ghosh). The nanotubes buckled on relaxation of the core, but continued to coat it fully and could stretch enormously, with relatively little change in resistance.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jul 24, 2015
- Source ID
- 10.1126/science.aaa7952
Entities
People
- C. Dong
- C. S. Haines
- D. Qian
- D. S. Galvao
- D. W. Lee
- F. A. Moura
- H. Lu
- H. Y. Wang
- J. Di
- J. N. Ding
- M. D. Lima
- M. J. Chen
- Mei Zhang
- N. Y. Yuan
- Nan Jiang
- Qing Yin
- R. C. Zhang
- R. H. Baughman
- R. Ovalle-robles
- Rui Wang
- Rui Zhang
- S. G. Yin
- Shaojun Fang
- W. Lv
- X. Lepró
- Xufeng Wang
- Y. T. Chong
- Z. F. Liu
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Changzhou University
- Florida State University
- Jiangsu University
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
- National Institutes of Health
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- National Science Foundation
- Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Office of Naval Research
- Robert A. Welch Foundation
- Tianjin University of Technology
- United States Army
- United States Department of Defense
- University of Campinas
- University of Texas at Dallas