Code
01SC4216
Duration
01 March 2016 → 31 August 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Engineering and technology
- Process engineering
- Ceramic and glass materials
- Composites and hybrid materials
- Materials science and engineering
- Polymeric materials
- Semiconductor materials
- Other materials engineering
Keywords
resistivity-strain behaviour
conductive polymers
composites
sensors
sensor networks
Project description
The research aims to develop an innovative sensor network with resistivity-strain behaviour through construction of oriented and selectively distributed conductive networks in CPCs. The network consists of thermoplastic nanofilled sensors which afterwards can be woven into a conductive layer and then be embedded as a sensor layer inside a composite structure to monitor behaviour and integrity of these materials.