Intrinsically self-healing polymers: from mechanistic insight to current challenges

B Li, PF Cao, T Saito, AP Sokolov - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Self-healing materials open new prospects for more sustainable technologies with improved
material performance and devices' longevity. We present an overview of the recent …

Electronic skin: recent progress and future prospects for skin‐attachable devices for health monitoring, robotics, and prosthetics

JC Yang, J Mun, SY Kwon, S Park, Z Bao… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress in electronic skin or e‐skin research is broadly reviewed, focusing on
technologies needed in three main applications: skin‐attachable electronics, robotics, and …

Lab-on-skin: a review of flexible and stretchable electronics for wearable health monitoring

Y Liu, M Pharr, GA Salvatore - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Skin is the largest organ of the human body, and it offers a diagnostic interface rich with vital
biological signals from the inner organs, blood vessels, muscles, and dermis/epidermis. Soft …

Recent progress in essential functions of soft electronic skin

J Chen, Y Zhu, X Chang, D Pan, G Song… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by the human skin, electronic skins (e‐skins) composed of various flexible sensors,
such as strain sensor, pressure sensor, shear force sensor, temperature sensor, and humility …

Stretchable and soft electronics using liquid metals

MD Dickey - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The use of liquid metals based on gallium for soft and stretchable electronics is discussed.
This emerging class of electronics is motivated, in part, by the new opportunities that arise …

Self-healing polymers for electronics and energy devices

Y Zhou, L Li, Z Han, Q Li, J He, Q Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymers are extensively exploited as active materials in a variety of electronics and energy
devices because of their tailorable electrical properties, mechanical flexibility, facile …

25th anniversary article: the evolution of electronic skin (e‐skin): a brief history, design considerations, and recent progress

ML Hammock, A Chortos, BCK Tee… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Human skin is a remarkable organ. It consists of an integrated, stretchable network of
sensors that relay information about tactile and thermal stimuli to the brain, allowing us to …

Tough and water‐insensitive self‐healing elastomer for robust electronic skin

J Kang, D Son, GJN Wang, Y Liu, J Lopez… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An electronic (e‐) skin is expected to experience significant wear and tear over time.
Therefore, self‐healing stretchable materials that are simultaneously soft and with high …

An autonomously electrically self-healing liquid metal–elastomer composite for robust soft-matter robotics and electronics

EJ Markvicka, MD Bartlett, X Huang, C Majidi - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Large-area stretchable electronics are critical for progress in wearable computing, soft
robotics and inflatable structures. Recent efforts have focused on engineering electronics …

Smart eutectic gallium–indium: from properties to applications

Z Zhao, S Soni, T Lee, CA Nijhuis… - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Eutectic gallium–indium (EGaIn), a liquid metal with a melting point close to or
below room temperature, has attracted extensive attention in recent years due to its …