Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Highly stretchable and transparent ionic conducting elastomers

  • Lei Shi,
  • Tianxiang Zhu,
  • Guoxin Gao,
  • Xinyu Zhang,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Wenfeng Liu,
  • Shujiang Ding

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05165-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Conductive elastomers are often made of composite materials and realization of high transparency and high elasticity at the same time is therefore hard to achieve. Here the authors use a salt in polymer strategy to fabricate ionic conducting elastomers (ICE), which show good elasticity and transparency and simultaneously high conductivity.