Journal Papers Published by the Rubber Research Group

"Magnetoresistive Phenomena in a Fe-Filled Carbon Nanotube/Elastomer Composite"

Author(s): S. Hudziak, A. Darfeuille, R. Zhang, T. Peijs, G. Mountjoy, G. Bertoni and M. Baxendale

Journal: Nanotechnology 21,125505 (2010)

DC magnetoresistive effects were observed in above-percolation-threshold loaded Fe-filled carbon nanotube/polyurethane–urea composite samples. A phenomenological model is derived from interpretation of resistance relaxation for a range of axial strains. The large instantaneous magnetoresistance of +90% observed at low axial strain was a result of conduction pathway breaking caused by preferential orientation of the conducting nanotubes perpendicular to the axial current flow: a result of the magnetic torque experienced by the ferromagnetic nanotube core. At large strain the observed large instantaneous change in resistance of −90% resulted from voltage-driven relaxation in the conducting nanotube network. At high axial strain the competition between voltage-driven relaxation and a magnetic torque gave rise to an oscillatory component of resistance relaxation.

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