Liquid metal functionalization innovations in wearables and soft robotics for smart healthcare applications

S Chen, S Fan, H Chan, Z Qiao, J Qi… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Smart healthcare solutions are crucial for early diagnosis, real‐time health monitoring, and
personalized therapy. Essential to these advancements are flexible wearable devices and …

Gallium‐Based Liquid–Solid Biphasic Conductors for Soft Electronics

M Reis Carneiro, C Majidi… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soft and stretchable electronics have diverse applications in the fields of compliant
bioelectronics, textile‐integrated wearables, novel forms of mechanical sensors, electronics …

A self-healing electrically conductive organogel composite

Y Zhao, Y Ohm, J Liao, Y Luo, HY Cheng, P Won… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Self-healing hydrogels use spontaneous intermolecular forces to recover from physical
damage caused by extreme strain, pressure or tearing. Such materials are of potential use in …

Highly permeable and ultrastretchable E-textiles with EGaIn-superlyophilicity for on-skin health monitoring, joule heating, and electromagnetic shielding

J Dong, X Tang, Y Peng, C Fan, L Li, C Zhang, F Lai… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The prosperity of wearable and healthcare electronics yearns for the compact integration of
multi-functionalities including detectability for various electrophysiological signals …

Robust integration of energy harvesting with daytime radiative cooling enables wearing thermal comfort self-powered electronic devices

C Fan, Z Long, Y Zhang, A Mensah, H He, Q Wei, P Lv - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Wearable triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) exhibit high flexibility and electric output,
and are highly desirable in wearable electronics, soft robotics, and healthcare. Despite …

Ultrastretchable electrically self-healing conductors based on silver nanowire/liquid metal microcapsule nanocomposites

Y Lin, T Fang, C Bai, Y Sun, C Yang, G Hu, H Guo… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stretchable conductive nanocomposites are essential for deformable electronic devices.
These conductors currently face significant limitations, such as insufficient deformability …

Single-step fabrication of liquid gallium nanoparticles via capillary interaction for dynamic structural colours

RR Sahu, AS Ramasamy, S Bhonsle… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Incorporating structural coloured materials in flexible and stretchable elastomeric substrates
requires numerous steps that compromise their scalability and economic viability for …

Enhancing electrical conductivity of stretchable liquid metal–silver composites through direct ink writing

W Zu, HE Carranza, MD Bartlett - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Structure–property–process relationships are a controlling factor in the performance of
materials. This offers opportunities in emerging areas, such as stretchable conductors, to …

Segregated and non‐settling liquid metal elastomer via jamming of elastomeric particles

X Xue, D Zhang, Y Wu, R **ng, H Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid metal elastomer (LME)—that is, liquid metal particles dispersed in elastomer—is a
soft material that has useful electric, dielectric, and thermal properties. Two issues with LME …

Surface embedded metal nanowire–liquid metal–elastomer hybrid composites for stretchable electronics

D Shukla, H Wang, O Awartani… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Both liquid metal (LM) and metallic filler-based conductive composites are promising
stretchable conductors. LM alloys exhibit intrinsically high deformability but present …