A stretchable carbon nanotube strain sensor for human-motion detection

TL;DR: In this article, a conductive nanocomposite hydrogel comprised of oxidized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (oxCNTs) and polyacrylamide (PAAm) is developed.

TL;DR: A new method for fabricating textile integrable capacitive soft strain sensors is reported, based on multicore-shell fiber printing, which provides accurate and hysteresis-free strain measurements under both static and dynamic conditions.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that auxetic mechanical metamaterials can be incorporated into stretchable strain sensors to significantly enhance the sensitivity, and paves the way for utilizing mechanical metAMaterials into a broader library of stretchable electronics.

TL;DR: A mechanical sensor with graphene porous network (GPN) combined with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) together with nickel foam demonstrated by the first time shows potential applications in monitoring or even recognize the walking states, finger bending degree, and wrist blood pressure.

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.