This review article focuses on our recent studies on novel soft materials consisting of carbon nanotubes. Single-walled carbon nanotubes, when suspended in imidazolium ion-based ionic liquids and ground in an agate mortar, form physical gels (bucky gels), where heavily entangled bundles of carbon nanotubes are exfoliated to give highly dispersed, much finer bundles. By using bucky gels, the fir...

Modelling of the current density in elelectroconductive textiles is a complicated problem as they cannot be considered homogenous structures with an isotropic current distribution. This anisotropy is mainly the result of the electrical contact resistance between interlacing yarns comprising the textile. It is difficult to measure the contact resistance directly as it is often nonlinear and depe...

Electroconductive materials, such as conductive polymers and carbon-nanomaterials, have been studied since the 1970s for use in a broad range of applications. These materials showcase electrical properties that are similar to those commonly used metals, while providing other benefits processing flexibility, ability modify, ease synthesis. Conductive (e.g., polypyrrole, polythiophene, polyanilin...

Strategies involving the inclusion of cell-instructive chemical and topographical cues to smart biomaterials in combination with a suitable physical stimulus may be beneficial enhance nerve-regeneration rate. In this regard, we investigated surface functionalization poly[2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV)-based electroconductive electrospun nanofibers coupled externa...