A stretchable carbon nanotube strain sensor for human-motion detection

TL;DR: While the primary focus of this review is on the science framework of SWCNT growth, connections to mechanisms underlying the synthesis of other 1D and 2D materials such as boron nitride nanotubes and graphene are drawn.

TL;DR: In this paper, a low-cost fabrication strategy to efficiently construct highly sensitive graphite-based strain sensors by pencil-trace drawn on flexible printing papers is reported, which can be operated at only two batteries voltage of 3 V, and can be applied to variously monitoring microstructural changes and human motions with fast response/relaxation times of 110 ms, a high gauge factor (GF) of 536.6, and high stability >10 000 bending-unbending cycles.

TL;DR: Wearable and stretchable strain sensors have received extensive research interest due to their applications in personalized healthcare, human motion detection, human-machine interfaces, soft robotics, and beyond as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A nanomesh sensor built from a series of electrospun materials is developed that can repeatably detect the pressure involved in gripping an object and can be attached to human fingers and that this does not affect the force used to grasp an object.

TL;DR: Water-stimulated enhanced catalytic activity results in massive growth of superdense and vertically aligned nanotube forests with heights up to 2.5 millimeters that can be easily separated from the catalysts, providing nanotubes material with carbon purity above 99.98%.

TL;DR: This dense carbon-nanotube material is advantageous for numerous applications, and here it is demonstrated its use as flexible heaters as well as supercapacitor electrodes for compact energy-storage devices.

TL;DR: The manufacture of printable elastic conductors comprising single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) uniformly dispersed in a fluorinated rubber is described, which is constructed a rubber-like stretchable active-matrix display comprising integrated printed elastic conductor, organic transistors and organic light-emitting diodes.

TL;DR: A simple approach to high-performance, stretchable, and foldable integrated circuits that integrate inorganic electronic materials, including aligned arrays of nanoribbons of single crystalline silicon, with ultrathin plastic and elastomeric substrates.