Microscopic mechanisms of deformation transfer in high dynamic range branched nanoparticle deformation sensors

Tetrapod quantum dots are promising nanoscale stress sensors because of their non-invasive sensing technique, but sensor versatility has not yet been assessed. Here the authors show that tetrapod quantum dots exhibit a large dynamic range and excellent sensing versatility in a multitude of polymers....

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Main Authors: Shilpa N. Raja, Xingchen Ye, Matthew R. Jones, Liwei Lin, Sanjay Govindjee, Robert O. Ritchie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03396-5