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Multiscale Model for the Extreme Piezoresistivity in Silicone/Nickel Nanostrand Nanocomposites

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Extreme piezoresistivity was discovered in a silicone/nickel nanostrand (silicone/NiNs) nanocomposite. A novel technique was developed to study the charge transport phenomena responsible for the piezoresistive mechanism in the silicone/NiNs system using conductive nanoindentation. A quantum mechanical tunneling (QMT)/percolation model was developed, which bridges the gap between quantum effects at the nanoscopic scale and bulk material response at the macroscopic scale. The predictions of this model are compared to experimental measurements.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the joint DoD/DOE Munitions Technology Development Program for support of this work. This work was performed, in part, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), a United States Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, user facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396) and Sandia National Laboratories (Contract No. DE-AC04-94AL85000). We also thank LANL and CINT for the use of their Nanoindenter XP system. We further thank Dr. Brent Adams for his encouragement of this work and Marshall Maez for fabrication of the test fixture hardware.

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  1. Oliver K. Johnson (Doctoral Student)

    Present address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139-4307, USA

  2. Calvin J. Gardner (Doctoral Student)

    Present address: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA

    Oliver K. Johnson (Doctoral Student), Calvin J. Gardner (Doctoral Student), Daniel B. Seegmiller (Research Assistant) & David T. Fullwood (Associate Professor)

  2. Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545-0001, USA

    Nathan A. Mara (Technical Staff Member) & Andrew M. Dattelbaum (Scientist)

  3. Structure/Property Relations Group, Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545-0001, USA

    Philip J. Rae (Technical Staff Member)

  4. Nuclear Materials Science Group, Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545-0001, USA

    George C. Kaschner (Technical Staff Member)

  5. Detonator Technology Group, Weapon Systems Engineering Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545-0001, USA

    Thomas A. Mason (Research Engineer)

  6. Conductive Composites, LLC, Heber City, UT, 84032-2256, USA

    George Hansen (President)

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Johnson, O.K., Gardner, C.J., Seegmiller, D.B. et al. Multiscale Model for the Extreme Piezoresistivity in Silicone/Nickel Nanostrand Nanocomposites. Metall Mater Trans A 42, 3898–3906 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-011-0814-9

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