Prospective Polymer/Nanostructured Carbon Composites for Application in Multifunctional Sensors

The 9th International Conference on Global Research and Education: Inter Academia 2010: Digest 2010
Māris Knite

Recent achievements of our scientific group in design, processing and investigation of polymer-nanostructured carbon composites (PNCC) as prospective materials for non-rigid mechanical (pressure, strain) indicators, chemical vapour indicators, humidity sensors and polymeric thermistors have been presented. Complex “conductive AFM” (Fig.1), SEM, FTIR ATR, dielectric spectroscopy measurements as well as mechano-electrical, chemo-electrical, thermo-mechanical and thermo-electrical properties were studied to understand the mechanisms of the multifunctional sensing and to improve the sensing parameters.

Keywords
polyisoprene, carbon black, nanocomposite, piesoresistive

Knite, M. Prospective Polymer/Nanostructured Carbon Composites for Application in Multifunctional Sensors. In: The 9th International Conference on Global Research and Education: Inter Academia 2010: Digest, Latvia, Riga, 9-12 August, 2010. Riga: RTU Publishing House, 2010, pp.84-85. ISBN 978-9934-10-046-8.

Publication language
English (en)