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 …

Nature-inspired structural materials for flexible electronic devices

Y Liu, K He, G Chen, WR Leow, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Exciting advancements have been made in the field of flexible electronic devices in the last
two decades and will certainly lead to a revolution in peoples' lives in the future. However …

A skin-attachable, stretchable integrated system based on liquid GaInSn for wireless human motion monitoring with multi-site sensing capabilities

YR Jeong, J Kim, Z **e, Y Xue, SM Won, G Lee… - NPG Asia …, 2017 - nature.com
This paper introduces a liquid-metal integrated system that combines soft electronics
materials and engineering designs with advanced near-field-communication (NFC) …

A stretchable self-powered triboelectric tactile sensor with EGaIn alloy electrode for ultra-low-pressure detection

J Wang, P Cui, J Zhang, Y Ge, X Liu, N Xuan, G Gu… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Self-powered tactile and pressure sensor is one of the key components for new smart
electronic devices which can sense various external physical stimuli without external power …

Morphological/nanostructural control toward intrinsically stretchable organic electronics

R Ma, SY Chou, Y **e, Q Pei - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of intrinsically stretchable electronics poses great challenges in
synthesizing elastomeric conductors, semiconductors and dielectric materials. While a wide …

From liquid metal to stretchable electronics: Overcoming the surface tension

Z Yang, D Yang, X Zhao, Q Zhao, M Zhu, Y Liu… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
The field of stretchable electronics mainly includes electronic products conformal with
tissues, being integrated into skin or clothing. Since these products need to work during …

Liquid metal antennas: Materials, fabrication and applications

KN Paracha, AD Butt, AS Alghamdi, SA Babale, PJ Soh - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
This work reviews design aspects of liquid metal antennas and their corresponding
applications. In the age of modern wireless communication technologies, adaptability and …

[HTML][HTML] Flexible liquid crystal polymer technologies from microwave to terahertz frequencies

Z Zhou, W Li, J Qian, W Liu, Y Wang, X Zhang, Q Guo… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the emergence of fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks, millimeter-wave (mmW) and
terahertz (THz) frequencies have attracted ever-growing interest for advanced wireless …

A multistate frequency reconfigurable monopole antenna using fluidic channels

A Singh, I Goode, CE Saavedra - IEEE Antennas and Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reconfigurable microstrip monopole antenna that uses three closely spaced substrate
milled channels filled with either air or dielectric fluid is presented. Based on the number of …

Water-based devices for advanced control of electromagnetic waves

RE Jacobsen, S Arslanagić, AV Lavrinenko - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Tunable devices are of great interest as they offer reconfigurability to their operation,
although many of them employ rare and expensive materials. In a world with increasing …