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Ultralong aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes on flexible fluorphlogopite mica for strain sensors

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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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  1. Center for Condensed Matter Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China

    Muhong Wu & Yu Sui

  2. Bei**g National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100190, China

    Kaihui Liu, Wenlong Wang & Xuedong Bai

  3. International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Bei**g, 100871, China

    Enge Wang

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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 Res. 5, 443–449 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-012-0228-z

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