Bioinspired ultra-stretchable and anti-freezing conductive hydrogel fibers with ordered and reversible polymer chain alignment

Xue Zhao; Fang Chen; Yuanheng Li; Han Lu; Ning Zhang; Mingming Ma

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05904-z

Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Bioinspired ultra-stretchable and anti-freezing conductive hydrogel fibers with ordered and reversible polymer chain alignment

Xue Zhao,
Fang Chen,
Yuanheng Li,
Han Lu,
Ning Zhang,
Mingming Ma

Affiliations

Xue Zhao: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, iChEM (Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China
Fang Chen: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, iChEM (Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China
Yuanheng Li: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, iChEM (Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China
Han Lu: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, iChEM (Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China
Ning Zhang: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, iChEM (Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China
Mingming Ma: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, iChEM (Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05904-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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High-performance stretchable conductive fibers are desired for the development of stretchable electronic devices but preparation of conductive hydrogel fibers is challenging. Inspired by spider silk the authors demonstrate here a spinning method to prepare stretchable conductive hydrogel fibers with ordered polymer chain alignment.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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