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Printable superelastic conductors with extreme stretchability and robust cycling endurance enabled by liquid-metal particles
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Stretchable conductors are vital and indispensable components in soft electronic systems. The development for stretchable conductors has been highly motivated with different approaches established to address the dilemma in the conductivity and stretchability trade-offs to some extent. Here, a new strategy to achieve superelastic conductors with high conductivity and stable electrical performance under stretching is reported. It is demonstrated that by electrically anchoring conductive fillers with eutectic gallium indium particles (EGaInPs), significant improvement in stretchability and durability can be achieved in stretchable conductors. Different from the strategy of modulating the chemical interactions between the conductive fillers and host polymers, the EGaInPs provide dynamic and robust electrical anchors between the conductive fillers. A superelastic conductor which can achieve a high stretchability with 1000% strain at initial conductivity of 8331 S cm-1 and excellent cycling durability with about eight times resistance change (compared to the initial resistance at 0% strain before stretching) after reversibly stretching to 800% strain for 10 000 times is demonstrated. Applications of the superelastic conductor in an interactive soft touch device and a stretchable light-emitting system are also demonstrated, featuring its promising applications in soft robotics or soft and interactive human-machine interfaces. National Research Foundation (NRF) The authors thank Dr. M. Lin, Dr. J. Xiong, Dr. P, Cui, Q. Kai, and X. Chen for their valuable discussions. This work was financially supported by the National Research Foundation Competitive Research Programme (Award No. NRF-CRP-13-2014-02), and the NRF Investigatorship (NRFI) (Award No. NRF-NRFI2016-05).
- Subjects :
- Liquid metal
Materials science
Materials [Engineering]
Mechanical Engineering
Electronic skin
Soft robotics
chemistry.chemical_element
02 engineering and technology
Conductivity
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Electronic Skin
01 natural sciences
Durability
0104 chemical sciences
Conductor
3D Printing
chemistry
Mechanics of Materials
General Materials Science
Composite material
0210 nano-technology
Electrical conductor
Indium
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f6b700cd146c200e5d49c281955a1b02