Flexible and Optical Fiber Sensors Composited by Graphene and PDMS for Motion Detection
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Materials
2.2. Fabrication Procedures of Optical Fiber
2.3. Optical Fiber Measurement
3. Results
3.1. Characteristics of Fiber Optic Sensors
3.2. Sensing Mechanism of Fiber Optic Sensors
3.3. Motion-Detecting Applications
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Wang, D.; Sheng, B.; Peng, L.; Huang, Y.; Ni, Z. Flexible and Optical Fiber Sensors Composited by Graphene and PDMS for Motion Detection. Polymers 2019, 11, 1433. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym11091433
Wang D, Sheng B, Peng L, Huang Y, Ni Z. Flexible and Optical Fiber Sensors Composited by Graphene and PDMS for Motion Detection. Polymers. 2019; 11(9):1433. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym11091433
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Dong, Bin Sheng, Lina Peng, Yuanshen Huang, and Zhengji Ni. 2019. "Flexible and Optical Fiber Sensors Composited by Graphene and PDMS for Motion Detection" Polymers 11, no. 9: 1433. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym11091433