Any suggestion for conductive paste for PDMS or Ecoflex for electrode?

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Alan F Rawle

Ye Il Choi

I'd be looking for some type of conductive epoxy. For example:

https://tuball.com/ru/pages/conductive-additive-for-epoxy

Apply by screen printing and cure as appropriate for your application - which is?

Alan F Rawle,

I am planning to develop a strain sensor using flexible polymer. However it is difficult to create a contact due to the peeling off that I mentioned above.

Akhilesh Kumar Gupta

Please, try to use oxygen plasma treatment over PDMS for 1, 2, 5 minutes...it helps a lot.