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Enhancement of Diversity in Production and Application Utilizing Electrolytically Polymerized Rubber Sensors with MCF: 1st Report on Consummate Fabrication Combining Varied Kinds of Constituents with Porous Permeant Stocking-Like Rubber

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Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Sciences, Fukushima University, 1 Kanayagawa, Fukushima 960-1296, Japan
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Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan
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Sensors 2020, 20(17), 4658; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20174658
Received: 17 July 2020 / Revised: 29 July 2020 / Accepted: 29 July 2020 / Published: 19 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Magnetic Sensing/Functionalized Devices and Applications)
To satisfy the requirement of haptic sensibility in rubber such as in the proposed hybrid skin (H-Skin), the authors have demonstrated a new method for solidifying rubber using electrolytic polymerization together with configured magnetic clusters of magnetic compound fluid (MCF) incorporated into the rubber by the application of a magnetic field. However, the rubber and magnetic fluid (MF) involved in the MCF rubber were water-soluble. In addition, the authors have demonstrated the practicability of using electrolytic polymerization with an emulsifier, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), in which natural rubber (NR) or chloroprene rubber (CR) and silicone rubber (Q) can be mixed as water-soluble and water-insoluble rubbers, respectively. In this study, to enhance production, the feasibility of solidifying rubber by electrolytic polymerization is verified using varied water-insoluble rubber, varied water-insoluble MF, and varied surfactants to aid emulsion polymerization, except in the case of other kinds of rubber and MF which have been demonstrated until recent by the authors. Based on these diverse constituents, the authors propose a consummate fabrication process for multi-layered MCF rubber, which involves porous stocking-like rubber that can be permeated by any liquid. The investigation of this application is presented in the sequential second report. View Full-Text
Keywords: sensor; diene rubber; surfactant; porous; permeation; electrolytic polymerization; magnetic compound fluid (MCF); hybrid skin (H-skin) sensor; diene rubber; surfactant; porous; permeation; electrolytic polymerization; magnetic compound fluid (MCF); hybrid skin (H-skin)
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Shimada, K.; Ikeda, R.; Kikura, H.; Takahashi, H. Enhancement of Diversity in Production and Application Utilizing Electrolytically Polymerized Rubber Sensors with MCF: 1st Report on Consummate Fabrication Combining Varied Kinds of Constituents with Porous Permeant Stocking-Like Rubber. Sensors 2020, 20, 4658. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20174658

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Shimada K, Ikeda R, Kikura H, Takahashi H. Enhancement of Diversity in Production and Application Utilizing Electrolytically Polymerized Rubber Sensors with MCF: 1st Report on Consummate Fabrication Combining Varied Kinds of Constituents with Porous Permeant Stocking-Like Rubber. Sensors. 2020; 20(17):4658. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20174658

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Shimada, Kunio, Ryo Ikeda, Hiroshige Kikura, and Hideharu Takahashi. 2020. "Enhancement of Diversity in Production and Application Utilizing Electrolytically Polymerized Rubber Sensors with MCF: 1st Report on Consummate Fabrication Combining Varied Kinds of Constituents with Porous Permeant Stocking-Like Rubber" Sensors 20, no. 17: 4658. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20174658

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