A Highly Stretchable Liquid Metal Polymer as Reversible Transitional Insulator and Conductor

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Veröffentlicht in:	Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 31(2019), 23 vom: 12. Juni, Seite e1901337
1. Verfasser:	Wang, Hongzhang (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Yao, Youyou, He, Zhizhu, Rao, Wei, Hu, Liang, Chen, Sen, Lin, Ju, Gao, Jianye, Zhang, Pengju, Sun, Xuyang, Wang, Xiangjiang, Cui, Yuntao, Wang, Qian, Dong, Shijin, Chen, Guozhen, Liu, Jing
Format:	Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2019
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:	Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:	Journal Article liquid metals phase change reversible transitional insulator and conductor soft and stretchable electronics

Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:	© 2019 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Materials with a temperature-controlled reversible electrical transition between insulator and conductor are attracting huge attention due to their promising applications in many fields. However, most of them are intrinsically rigid and require complicated fabrication processes. Here, a highly stretchable (680% strain) liquid metal polymer composite as a reversible transitional insulator and conductor (TIC), which is accompanied with huge resistivity changes (more than 4 × 109 times) reversibly through a tuning temperature in a few seconds is introduced. When frozen, the insulated TIC becomes conductive and recovers after warming. Both the phase change of the liquid metal droplets and the rigidity change of the polymer contribute directly to transition between insulator and conductor. A simplified model is established to predict the expansion and connection of liquid metal droplets. Along with high stretchability, straightforward fabrication methods, rapid triggering time, large switching ratio, good repeatability, the TIC offers tremendous possibilities for numerous applications, like stretchable switches, semiconductors, temperature sensors, and resistive random-access memory. Accordingly, a system that can display numbers and letters via converting alternative TIC temperature to a binary signal on a computer is conceived and demonstrated. The present discovery suggests a general strategy for fabricating and stimulating a stretchable transitional insulator and conductor based on liquid metal and allied polymers
Beschreibung:	Date Revised 30.09.2020 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:	1521-4095
DOI:	10.1002/adma.201901337