King, M.G. and Baragwanath, A.J. and Rosamond, M.C. and Wood, D. and Gallant, A.J. (2009) 'Porous PDMS force sensitive resistors.', Procedia chemistry., 1 (1). pp. 568-571.
Abstract
Here we present an elastomeric force sensitive resistor (FSR) made from a porous matrix of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) filled with carbon black. The fabrication process is based on the use of a low cost sacrificial sugar cube scaffold which leads to a highly porous and compressible material. By filling this porous matrix with carbon black we can achieve typical resistance changes from 20 kW to 100 W for an applied 95% compressive strain. This material is suitable for a wide variety of sensing applications which include tactile artificial skin for robotics and solvent detection.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Proceedings of the 23rd Eurosensors XXIII conference, Lausanne, Switzerland 6-9 September 2009 |
| Keywords: | PDMS, Force sensitive resistors, Microfabrication, Porous scaffold |
| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. Download PDF (378Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proche.2009.07.142 |
| Publisher statement: | Article is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 15 April 2016 |
| Date of first online publication: | September 2009 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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