@article{ef0a38f9a70e48899cb60ee59218769e,
title = "Autonomic restoration of electrical conductivity using polymer-stabilized carbon nanotube and graphene microcapsules",
abstract = "We report the use of microcapsules containing suspensions of polymer-stabilized carbon nanotubes and/or graphene flakes for the autonomic restoration of conductivity in fractured gold lines. Multilayered samples were prepared in which microcapsules were embedded in layers of epoxy above and below a glass slide patterned with gold lines. Upon sample fracture, conductivity was lost as a crack formed in the gold line. Simultaneous release of carbon nanotubes and/or graphene suspensions from capsule cores restored conductivity in minutes. We suggest a healing mechanism in which the released carbon nanomaterials bridge gaps in the gold lines.",
author = "Odom, {Susan A.} and Tyler, {Timothy P.} and Caruso, {Mary M.} and Ritchey, {Joshua A.} and Schulmerich, {Matthew V.} and Robinson, {Scott J.} and Rohit Bhargava and Sottos, {Nancy R.} and White, {Scott R.} and Hersam, {Mark C.} and Moore, {Jeffrey S.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported as part of the Center for Electrical Energy Storage - Tailored Interfaces, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. (919 DOE ANL 9F-31921 NS) and the National Science Foundation under award number CHE 0957849. S.A.O. thanks the National Science Foundation for an American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellowship under Award No. 0936888, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. We thank Bharat Sankaran for e-beam deposition, Jason Goldman for assistance with photolithography, and Preston May for TGA analysis. We thank Benjamin Blaiszik, Sharlotte Kramer, and Nicolaas Vermeulen for helpful discussions. ",
year = "2012",
month = jul,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1063/1.4737935",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "101",
journal = "Applied Physics Letters",
issn = "0003-6951",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Publising LLC",
number = "4",
}