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Soft piezoresistive pressure sensing matrix from copper nanowires composite aerogel

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We report on a simple yet efficient approach to fabricate soft piezoresistive pressure sensors using copper nanowires-based aerogels. The sensors exhibit excellent sensitivity and durability and can be easily scalable to form large-area sensing matrix for pressure mapping. This opens a low-cost strategy to wearable biomedical sensors.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by ARC discovery Project (DP150103750). We also acknowledge Bin Su, Zheng Ma, Jiarong Li and Kean Aik Tan. This work was performed in part at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF).

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia

    Lim Wei Yap, Shu Gong, Yue Tang & Wenlong Cheng

  2. Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia

    Lim Wei Yap, Shu Gong, Yue Tang, Yonggang Zhu & Wenlong Cheng

  3. CSIRO Manufacturing Flagship, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia

    Lim Wei Yap & Yonggang Zhu

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Yap, L.W., Gong, S., Tang, Y. et al. Soft piezoresistive pressure sensing matrix from copper nanowires composite aerogel. Sci. Bull. 61, 1624–1630 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-016-1149-0

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