Understanding the mechanical and conductive properties of carbon nanotube fibers for smart electronics

X Zhang, W Lu, G Zhou, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The development of fiber‐based smart electronics has provoked increasing demand for high‐
performance and multifunctional fiber materials. Carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers, the 1D …

Recent progress on fabrication of carbon nanotube-based flexible conductive networks for resistive-type strain sensors

T Yan, Y Wu, W Yi, Z Pan - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexible resistive-type strain sensors are attracting wide attention due to their extensive
potential applications. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with outstanding conductivity and …

Carbon nanotube fibers and films: synthesis, applications and perspectives of the direct-spinning method

D Janas, KK Koziol - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The direct-spinning method of creation of CNT macroassemblies has received a lot of
attention because of its simplicity to produce high-performance material without apparent …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon nanotube fibers for advanced composites

AS Wu, TW Chou - Materials Today, 2012 - Elsevier
Investigations into carbon nanotube fibers as not only structural reinforcement materials but
also standalone or embedded strain/damage, thermal, atmospheric and biochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial muscles made of chiral two-way shape memory polymer fibers

Q Yang, J Fan, G Li - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we demonstrate the unusual improvement of the tensile actuation of
hierarchically chiral structured artificial muscle made of two-way shape memory polymer …

Fabrication and densification of high performance carbon nanotube/copper composite fibers

B Han, E Guo, X Xue, Z Zhao, L Luo, H Qu, T Niu, Y Xu… - Carbon, 2017 - Elsevier
An effective method to fabricate CNT/Cu composite fibers through combined physical vapor
deposition (PVD) and drawing treatment is presented in this work. Dense copper films with …

Direct spinning of horizontally aligned carbon nanotube fibers and films from the floating catalyst method

HM Duong, TQ Tran, R Kopp, SM Myint… - Nanotube Superfiber …, 2019 - Elsevier
As the first technique achieving commercial success, floating catalyst method has received
great attention due to its simplicity to fabricate high-performance CNT macroassemblies with …

Wearable strain sensor made of carbonized cotton cloth

C Deng, L Pan, R Cui, C Li, J Qin - Journal of Materials Science: Materials …, 2017 - Springer
An economical strain sensor is fabricated by sandwiching a carbonized cotton cloth (CC)
between two polydimethylsilane (PDMS) films. The natural networks of carbon fibers in CC …

Mechanical and thermal properties of carbon nanotubes in carbon nanotube fibers under tension–torsion loading

M Niu, C Cui, R Tian, Y Zhao, L Miao, W Hao, J Li… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In carbon nanotube fibers (CNFs) fabricated by spinning methods, it is well-known that the
mechanical and thermal performances of CNFs are highly dependent on the mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Preparation, characterization, and thermal conductivity of polyvinyl-formaldehyde/MWCNTs foam: A low cost heat sink substrate

B Anis, H El Fllah, T Ismail, WM Fathallah… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Preparation of polyvinyl-formaldehyde (PVF)/multi walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)
foams as an efficient heat sink nanocomposites was presented here. The PVF foam was …