<p>Temperature-adaptive elastic conductive fibers (ECFs) are crucial for seamlessly integrating electronic textiles, promoting the development of wearables, soft robotics, and high/low-temperature electronics. Realizing ECFs with balanced elasticity, conductivity, and temperature adaptivity remains challenging due to the difficulty of coupling the mechano-electrical-thermal properties at a microscale fiber. We design a wet-spun ECF consisting of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), silver flakes (AgFKs) and liquid metal microspheres (LMMSs) with regularly arranged filler architecture, revealing a cold/thermal stretching activated tricomponent-dynamic-coordination mechanism for autonomously-enhanced electrical conductivity (from ~1070 S cm<sup>−1</sup> at 25 °C to 1160 S cm<sup>−1</sup> at −30 °C and 3020 S cm<sup>−1</sup> at 180 °C) and improved electrical stability to sustain 1000 stretching cycles (60% strain at 80 °C). The fiber exhibits scalability and favorable knittability, demonstrating e-textiles such as biomedical electrodes, high/low-temperature near-field communication gloves, and intelligent firefighting suits. The autonomous mechano-thermo-electrical coupling strategy can inspire high-performance and environment-adaptive ECFs for extreme applications.</p>

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A temperature-adaptive component-dynamic-coordinated strategy for high-performance elastic conductive fibers

  • Yue Zhang,
  • Zechang Ming,
  • Zijie Zhou,
  • Xiaojie Wei,
  • Jingjing Huang,
  • Yufan Zhang,
  • Weikang Li,
  • Liming Zhu,
  • Shuang Wang,
  • Mengjie Wu,
  • Zeren Lu,
  • Xinran Zhou,
  • Jiaqing Xiong

摘要

Temperature-adaptive elastic conductive fibers (ECFs) are crucial for seamlessly integrating electronic textiles, promoting the development of wearables, soft robotics, and high/low-temperature electronics. Realizing ECFs with balanced elasticity, conductivity, and temperature adaptivity remains challenging due to the difficulty of coupling the mechano-electrical-thermal properties at a microscale fiber. We design a wet-spun ECF consisting of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), silver flakes (AgFKs) and liquid metal microspheres (LMMSs) with regularly arranged filler architecture, revealing a cold/thermal stretching activated tricomponent-dynamic-coordination mechanism for autonomously-enhanced electrical conductivity (from ~1070 S cm−1 at 25 °C to 1160 S cm−1 at −30 °C and 3020 S cm−1 at 180 °C) and improved electrical stability to sustain 1000 stretching cycles (60% strain at 80 °C). The fiber exhibits scalability and favorable knittability, demonstrating e-textiles such as biomedical electrodes, high/low-temperature near-field communication gloves, and intelligent firefighting suits. The autonomous mechano-thermo-electrical coupling strategy can inspire high-performance and environment-adaptive ECFs for extreme applications.