Abstract
Since new technology domains including intelligent robotics, wearable gadgets, stretchable electronics, and body-conformable systems have developed, the demand for stretchable products has been increasing significantly. For the manufacturing of such kind of composite, several rubbers and conductive polymers including ethylene–propylene–diene monomer (EPDM), nitrile, and butyl, natural are extensively applied. The present study deals with the development of electrically conductive polymers by using non-conductive rubbers and fillers. Conductive fillers including expanded graphite, carbon, carbon nano tubes, metal powders, carbon fibres, graphite, and others are used to make such rubber materials conductive. The developed materials deal with good elasticity or stretch ability as well as electrical conductivity. The low mechanical characteristics of these materials limit their widespread application. The most novel applications of developed polymers are stretchable sensors such as temperature sensors, pressure sensors and strain sensors.
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The work was supported by the project ‘Advanced structures for thermal insulation in ex-treme conditions (Reg. No. 21–32510 M) granted by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR).
The research was also supported by ‘Textile structures combining virus protection and comfort’ reg.c.:cz.01.1.02/0.0/0.0//20_321/0024467.
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Ali, A. et al. (2023). Flexible Electrically Conductive Elastomers. In: Militký, J., Venkataraman, M. (eds) Advanced Multifunctional Materials from Fibrous Structures. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 201. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6002-6_1
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