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Ultralong Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Flexible Fluorphlogopite Mica for Strain Sensors

Show Author's Information Muhong Wu1,  Kaihui Liu2,  Wenlong Wang2( ),  Yu Sui1( ),  Xuedong Bai2( ),  Enge Wang3
Center for Condensed Matter Science and Technology, Department of Physics Harbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin 150001 China
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100190 China
International Center for Quantum Materials School of Physics, Peking UniversityBeijing 100871 China
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), ultralong, aligned arrays, fluorphlogopite mica, strain sensing
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Wu M, Liu K, Wang W, et al. Ultralong Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Flexible Fluorphlogopite Mica for Strain Sensors. Nano Research, 2012, 5(7): 443-449. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-012-0228-z
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are expected to be an ideal candidate for making highly efficient strain sensing devices owing to their unique mechanical, electronic, and electromechanical properties. Here we present the use of fluorphlogopite mica (F-mica) as a flexible, high-temperature-bearing and mechanically robust substrate for the direct growth of horizontally aligned ultra-long SWNT arrays by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), which in turn enables the straightforward, facile, and cost-effective fabrication of macro-scale SWNT-array-based strain sensors. Strain sensing tests of the SWNT-array devices demonstrated fairly good strain sensitivity with high ON-state current density.


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Ultralong Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Flexible Fluorphlogopite Mica for Strain Sensors

Show Author's information Muhong Wu1, Kaihui Liu2, Wenlong Wang2( ), Yu Sui1( ), Xuedong Bai2( ), Enge Wang3
Center for Condensed Matter Science and Technology, Department of Physics Harbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin 150001 China
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100190 China
International Center for Quantum Materials School of Physics, Peking UniversityBeijing 100871 China

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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are expected to be an ideal candidate for making highly efficient strain sensing devices owing to their unique mechanical, electronic, and electromechanical properties. Here we present the use of fluorphlogopite mica (F-mica) as a flexible, high-temperature-bearing and mechanically robust substrate for the direct growth of horizontally aligned ultra-long SWNT arrays by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), which in turn enables the straightforward, facile, and cost-effective fabrication of macro-scale SWNT-array-based strain sensors. Strain sensing tests of the SWNT-array devices demonstrated fairly good strain sensitivity with high ON-state current density.

Keywords: Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), ultralong, aligned arrays, fluorphlogopite mica, strain sensing

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Received: 10 February 2012
Revised: 24 April 2012
Accepted: 01 May 2012
Published: 30 May 2012
Issue date: July 2012

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We acknowledge financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) (Grants 11027402 and 20973195), the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) (Grants 2009DFA01290 and 2012CB933003), and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (Grants KJCX2-YW-M13 and KJCX2-YW-W35) of China.

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