Evaluation of different conductive nanostructured particles as filler in smart piezoresistive composites

This work presents a comparison between three piezoresistive composite materials based on nanostructured conductive fillers in a polydimethylsiloxane insulating elastomeric matrix for sensing applications. Without any mechanical deformation upon an applied bias, the prepared composites present an insulating electric behavior, while, when subjected to mechanical load, the electric resistance is reduced exponentially. Three different metal fillers were tested: commercial nickel and copper spiky-particles and synthesized highly-pointed gold nanostars. These particles were chosen because of their high electrical conductivity and especially for the presence of nanosized sharp tips on their surface. These features generate an enhancement of the local electric field increasing the tunneling probability between the particles. Different figures of merit concerning the morphology of the fillers were evaluated and correlated with the corresponding functional response of the composite.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Nanoscale Research Letters

• Publication date

  2012-06-21

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/1556-276X-7-327PMID 22721506PMCID 3447696
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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