King, M. G., Baragwanath, Adam, Rosamond, Mark, Wood, David and Gallant, Andrew (2009) Porous PDMS force sensitive resistors. Procedia Chemistry, 1 (1). pp. 568-571. ISSN 1876-6196
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Abstract
Here we present an elastomeric force sensitive resistor (FSR) made from a porous matrix of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) filled with carbon black. The fabrication process is based on the use of a low cost sacrificial sugar cube scaffold which leads to a highly porous and compressible material. By filling this porous matrix with carbon black we can achieve typical resistance changes from 20 kΩ to 100 Ω for an applied 95% compressive strain. This material is suitable for a wide variety of sensing applications which include tactile artificial skin for robotics and solvent detection.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PDMS, force sensitive resistors, microfabrication, porous scaffold |
| Subjects: | H900 Others in Engineering |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Becky Skoyles |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2018 10:38 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2021 12:30 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/34003 |
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