Liquid metal sponges for mechanically durable, all-soft, electrical conductors

Suqing Liang; Yaoyao Li; Yuzhen Chen; Jinbin Yang; Taipeng Zhu; Deyong Zhu; Chuanxin He; Yizhen Liu; Stephan Handschuh-Wang; Xuechang Zhou

doi:10.1039/C6TC05358K

Liquid metal sponges for mechanically durable, all-soft, electrical conductors†

Suqing Liang,‡^a Yaoyao Li,‡^a Yuzhen Chen,‡^a Jinbin Yang,

^a Taipeng Zhu,^a Deyong Zhu,^a Chuanxin He,

^a Yizhen Liu,

^a Stephan Handschuh-Wang^a and Xuechang Zhou

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^a College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, P. R. China
E-mail: xczhou@szu.edu.cn
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Abstract

Liquid metal sponges were developed by loading liquid metals (GaInSn) into elastomer sponges. The elasticity of 3D-interconnected networks and the fluidic nature of liquid metals led to the formation of all-soft structures for electrical conductors with high electrical conductivity and mechanical flexibility.

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Liquid metal sponges for mechanically durable, all-soft, electrical conductors†

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