Fatigue-free artificial ionic skin toughened by self-healable elastic nanomesh

Jiqiang Wang; Baohu Wu; Peng Wei; Shengtong Sun; Peiyi Wu

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32140-3

Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Fatigue-free artificial ionic skin toughened by self-healable elastic nanomesh

Jiqiang Wang,
Baohu Wu,
Peng Wei,
Shengtong Sun,
Peiyi Wu

Affiliations

Jiqiang Wang: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology & Center for Advanced Low-dimension Materials, Donghua University
Baohu Wu: Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) Forschungszentrum Jülich
Peng Wei: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology & Center for Advanced Low-dimension Materials, Donghua University
Shengtong Sun: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology & Center for Advanced Low-dimension Materials, Donghua University
Peiyi Wu: State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology & Center for Advanced Low-dimension Materials, Donghua University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32140-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Developing robust skin-like sensing materials is essential for soft electronics and robotics with extended service life. Here, inspired by the repairable nanofibrous structure of human skin, the authors engineer a fatigue-resistant artificial ionic skin toughened by self-healable elastic nanomesh.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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