Piezoresistive Rubber Nanocomposites for Pressure Sensing

9th International Conference on Global Research and Education : Inter Academia 2010 : Digest 2010
Juris Zavickis, Māris Knite, Kaspars Ozols, Artis Linarts, Raimonds Orlovs, Valdis Teteris, Velta Tupureina

In this work we present piezoresistive polyisoprene - carbon nanocomposites (PICN) for pressure sensing applications. Latest results on designing, preparing and obtaining the PICN with necessary properties, as well as our efforts on practical application of such material are presented. The dependence of PICN sensing properties on vulcanization time, filler type and concentration is evaluated. The completely hyper-elastic multi layer structural design is proposed to be used as a prospective sensing element.

Keywords
polyisoprene, carbon, nanocomposites

Zavickis, J., Knite, M., Ozols, K., Linarts, A., Orlovs, R., Teteris, V., Tupureina, V. Piezoresistive Rubber Nanocomposites for Pressure Sensing. In: 9th International Conference on Global Research and Education : Inter Academia 2010 : Digest, Latvia, Riga, 9-12 August, 2010. Riga: RTU Publishing House, 2010, pp.202-203. ISBN 978-9934-10-046-8.

Publication language
English (en)