Highly Elastic Melamine Graphene/MWNT Hybrid Sponge for Sensor Applications
The rapidly increased interest in multifunctional nanoelectronic devices, such as wearable monitors, smart robots, and electronic skin, motivated many researchers toward the development of several kinds of sensors in recent years. Flexibility, stability, sensitivity, and low cost are the most import...
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| description | The rapidly increased interest in multifunctional nanoelectronic devices, such as wearable monitors, smart robots, and electronic skin, motivated many researchers toward the development of several kinds of sensors in recent years. Flexibility, stability, sensitivity, and low cost are the most important demands for exploiting stretchable or compressible strain sensors. This article describes the formation and characteristics of a flexible, low-cost strain sensor by combining a commercial melamine sponge and a graphene/carbon nanotubes hybrid. The composite that emerged by doping the highly elastic melamine sponge with a highly conductive graphene/carbon nanotubes hybrid showed excellent piezoresistive behavior, with low resistivity of 22 kΩ m. Its function as a piezoresistive material exhibited a high sensitivity of 0.050 kPa<sup>−1</sup> that combined with a wide detection area ranging between 0 to 50 kPa. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0569ad3eea554c7981d3bdb4549ba5a62023-11-23T14:30:18ZengMDPI AGMolecules1420-30492022-05-012711353010.3390/molecules27113530Highly Elastic Melamine Graphene/MWNT Hybrid Sponge for Sensor ApplicationsChristos Fragkogiannis0Apostolos Koutsioukis1Vasilios Georgakilas2Department of Material Science, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, GreeceDepartment of Material Science, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, GreeceDepartment of Material Science, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, GreeceThe rapidly increased interest in multifunctional nanoelectronic devices, such as wearable monitors, smart robots, and electronic skin, motivated many researchers toward the development of several kinds of sensors in recent years. Flexibility, stability, sensitivity, and low cost are the most important demands for exploiting stretchable or compressible strain sensors. This article describes the formation and characteristics of a flexible, low-cost strain sensor by combining a commercial melamine sponge and a graphene/carbon nanotubes hybrid. The composite that emerged by doping the highly elastic melamine sponge with a highly conductive graphene/carbon nanotubes hybrid showed excellent piezoresistive behavior, with low resistivity of 22 kΩ m. Its function as a piezoresistive material exhibited a high sensitivity of 0.050 kPa<sup>−1</sup> that combined with a wide detection area ranging between 0 to 50 kPa.https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/11/3530graphenecarbon nanotubesmelamine spongestrain sensorpiezoresistivity |
| spellingShingle | Christos Fragkogiannis Apostolos Koutsioukis Vasilios Georgakilas Highly Elastic Melamine Graphene/MWNT Hybrid Sponge for Sensor Applications Molecules graphene carbon nanotubes melamine sponge strain sensor piezoresistivity |
| title | Highly Elastic Melamine Graphene/MWNT Hybrid Sponge for Sensor Applications |
| title_full | Highly Elastic Melamine Graphene/MWNT Hybrid Sponge for Sensor Applications |
| title_fullStr | Highly Elastic Melamine Graphene/MWNT Hybrid Sponge for Sensor Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Highly Elastic Melamine Graphene/MWNT Hybrid Sponge for Sensor Applications |
| title_short | Highly Elastic Melamine Graphene/MWNT Hybrid Sponge for Sensor Applications |
| title_sort | highly elastic melamine graphene mwnt hybrid sponge for sensor applications |
| topic | graphene carbon nanotubes melamine sponge strain sensor piezoresistivity |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/11/3530 |
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