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Highly Deformable Nanostructured Elastomeric Electrodes With Improving Conductivity Upon Cyclical Stretching
Author(s) -
Corbelli Gabriele,
Ghisleri Cristian,
Marelli Mattia,
Milani Paolo,
Ravagnan Luca
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201102463
Subject(s) - materials science , polydimethylsiloxane , electrode , elastomer , nanocomposite , nanotechnology , stencil , carbonization , composite material , computer science , chemistry , computational science , scanning electron microscope
Stretchable and compliant electrodes on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) are efficiently fabricated by the implantation of neutral metallic clusters aerodynamically accelerated by a supersonic expansion. The production of these nanocomposite electrodes avoids any charging or carbonization of PDMS and the electrodes can withstand many deformation cycles, decreasing their resistance upon cyclical stretching. Micrometric patterns can be simply fabricated by stencil mask patterning.