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Fabrication of 3D Carbon Microelectromechanical Systems C-MEMS
Published on: June 17, 2017
Bioinspired carbon nanotube fuzzy fiber hair sensor for air-flow detection
Matthew R Maschmann1, Gregory J Ehlert, Benjamin T Dickinson
1Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL/RX, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH, 45433, USA; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
Abstract:
Artificial hair sensors consisting of a piezoresistive carbon-nanotube-coated glass fiber embedded in a microcapillary are assembled and characterized. Individual sensors resemble a hair plug that may be integrated in a wide range of host materials. The sensors demonstrate an air-flow detection threshold of less than 1 m/s with a piezoresistive sensitivity of 1.3% per m/s air-flow change.

