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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"stretchability"”.
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Strechable crumpled graphene photodetector with plasmonically-enhanced photoresponsivity
… and high carrier mobility. However, the low stretchability and limited photoabsorption of graphene have restricted its applications in flexible and high-sensitivity photodetection systems. Various hybrid systems based on photonic or plasmonic nanostructures have been introduced to improve the …
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Effects of Starch-based Anti-caking Agents on the Functional Properties of Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
… properties of Mozzarella cheese; meltability, stretchability, and free oil formation. Meltability determination utilizing a fabricated UW Meltmeter resulted in no significant differences between untreated samples (control) and samples treated with anti-caking agents containing cellulose, potato …
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Development of Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites with Hybrid Structures for Fabrication of Stretchable Strain Sensing and Wearable Electronic Devices
… technology. Several requirements such as high stretchability, flexibility, a wide working strain ranges, durability, fast response, easy signal collections are considered for wearable sensing systems. Polymer nanocomposites are well established in wearable fashion due to their light weight, …
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A modular and stretchable electronic system for on-body health monitoring applications
… (PUR), showing high conductivity but minimum stretchability (below 3% strain). Second, serpentine shaped FPCs were designed and integrated into a silicone substrate, showing stretchability up to 160-170% strain with minimum changes in conductivity (below 30%). Additionally, a tensile cycling …
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Development of Flexible Pressure and Strain Sensors for Electronic Skin Applications
… large strain flexible strain sensors with high stretchability and sensitivity and low hysteresis. Therefore, this work attempts to address some of these issues and provide a platform for further optimization and enhancement of flexible pressure and strain sensors. The research focuses on two …
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Materials Strategies and Devices for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics
… such as foldability (extreme bendability) or stretchability, are required. In this dissertation, a simple approach to high performance, stretchable and foldable integrated circuits was developed by integrating aligned arrays of nanoribbons of single crystalline silicon with ultrathin plastic …
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Thermoreflectance for Contactless Sintering Characterization: From Metal Nanoparticles to Stretchable Conductors
… layers are combined to achieve a desirable stretchability-conductivity profile.
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Nanofabrication of flexible thin-film bioelectronics for long-term stable neural signal recording
… this work feature serpentine-shaped ribbons for stretchability and tetrode-like electrode configuration to enable the measurement of single-unit neural activities.
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Synthesis and characterisation of biobased polyamides and their cellulose nanocomposites
… elastomer shows high toughness, superior stretchability and remarkable shape recovery after being stretched to 200% and 500% strains. This elastomer also displays high autonomous self-healing efficiency after damage and zero water uptake during water submersion. The highly entangled main …
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Aerosol-Jet Printed Nanocomposites for Flexible and Stretchable Thermoelectric Generators
… to applications requiring flexibility and/or stretchability. On the other hand, organic TE polymers are less expensive, environmentally friendly, and flexible. However, they typically suffer from poor TE performance due to their comparatively low S and σ. This thesis therefore seeks to explore …
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Flexible, stretchable, and transient electronics for integration with the human body
… functional systems that offer flexibility and stretchability, while maintaining operational performance and mechanical robustness. The dissertation begins with a fundamental study of responsive monocrystalline silicon nanomembrane as a flexible electromechanical sensor element. Subsequent …
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Printed stretchable strain sensors for plant growth monitoring
… sensors for measuring plant growth have limited stretchability due to their selected material systems (<200%), which limits their application in monitoring large plant elongation. To address this limitation, in Chapter 2, we have designed a transparent, conjugated polymer-based thin film strain …
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Embedded Nanosensors for defect identification using flexible, optically transparent, deformation responsive wrinkled Single Walled Carbon Nanotube meshes
… with high mechanical flexibility and stretchability which may in the future prove to be a diagnostic tool in various matrices as cracks are initiated. We investigated the use of these wrinkled SWCNT meshes in concrete material and monitored their conductivity response at the moment of …
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Conformable light emitting modules
… which demand conformability (flexibility and stretchability). Well-being, automotive or wearable electronic applications are just a few examples where these trends can be observed. We are finding that conformability could bring various benefits to both users (tactile and optical comfort, …
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Water stability of organic and electrolyte-gated field-effect transistors
… due to their softness, biocompatibility, stretchability, and their ability to conduct both electrons and ions. Many fundamental studies have been conducted, utilizing devices such as the Organic Field Effect Transistor (OFET), the Electrolyte-Gated OFET (EG-OFET), and the Organic …
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Passive, Self-Healable, Dielectric Elastomers for Structural Health Monitoring
… poly(dimethylsiloxane). Self-healing efficiency, stretchability and flexibility are also desirable properties to attain. Integration of the manufactured sensor arrays around a layer of woven ceramic fiber with conductive fabric electrodes, hypervelocity impact testing, and self-healing efficiency …
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Stretchable, multimodal, large-area sensor arrays fabricated using excimer laser photoablation technologies
… fabricated and tested to have a uniaxial stretchability of up to 50%. Numerous capacitive MEMS devices, including pressure sensors, shear stress sensors, and condenser microphones, have been modeled and fabricated. Individual 200 μm capacitive sensors show a capacitance change of 60 fF …
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Problems and results in partially ordered sets, graphs and geometry
… We prove that the question is equivalent to a stretchability question involving certain sets of pseudoline arrangements. We also prove several facts about continuous universal functions that would transfer segment orders of the first kind into segments orders of the second kind. In the third …
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Rheology and processing of mozzarella cheese
… cheese such as meltability, flowability and stretchability were extracted from these results. Capillary flow and rolling experiments were also performed to determine their suitability as innovative post-production processing techniques for mozzarella cheese. Finally, a comparative study on …
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Fracture and toughening of soft elastic composite
<p>Characterized by their low modulus and high stretchability, soft composites have recently attracted great interest from researchers in related areas. The main objective of the present study is on the fracture property and toughening mechanism of soft composites. Two types of soft composites will …
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