Highly stretchable conductive carbon nanofibre acrylic latex-based nanocomposites for sensing applications
摘要
Stretchable conducting polymer nanocomposites are indispensable for designing flexible electronic devices mainly employed in emerging robotic technology to improve human–machine interactions. Herein, we report the fabrication and testing of 300% stretchable electronic film resistors as strain sensors by spray coating carbon nanofibers (CNFs)/natural rubber solutions over a stretchable acrylic latex-CNF nanocomposite substrate. The CNF-based coatings had a low sheet resistance of 26 Ω sq−1 and very good current transmission behaviour under elongation. Under 300% elongation, the nanocomposite film current reached ~55 µA demonstrating their potential as flexible thin conductive films.