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The sensors are capacitive, and composed of two Ag wrinkled electrodes separated by a carbon nanotubes (CNTs)\/polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composite deformable dielectric layer. Ag wrinkled electrodes were formed by vacuum deposition on top of pre-strained and relaxed PDMS substrates which were treated using an O2 plasma, a surface functionalization process, and a magnetron sputtering process. Ultimately, the developed sensor exhibits a maximum sensitivity of 19.80% kPa\u22121 to capacitance, great durability over 500 cycles, and rapid mechanical responses (&lt;200 ms). We also demonstrate that our sensor can be used to effectively detect the location and distribution of finger pressure.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s16122131","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,12,14]],"date-time":"2016-12-14T10:14:47Z","timestamp":1481710487000},"page":"2131","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":89,"title":["Flexible Pressure Sensor with Ag Wrinkled Electrodes Based on PDMS Substrate"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5776-9211","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianli","family":"Cui","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology on Electronic Test &amp; Measurement Laboratory, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Binzhen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology on Electronic Test &amp; Measurement Laboratory, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junping","family":"Duan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology on Electronic Test &amp; Measurement Laboratory, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hao","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology on Electronic Test &amp; Measurement Laboratory, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology on Electronic Test &amp; Measurement Laboratory, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,12,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2324","DOI":"10.1002\/adma.201405826","article-title":"Dynamic pressure mapping of personalized handwriting by a flexible sensor matrix based on the mechanoluminescence process","volume":"27","author":"Wang","year":"2015","journal-title":"Adv. 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