<p>Soft electronic fibres are potential building blocks for a variety of emerging technologies including smart textiles and wearable health monitors. However, it remains a challenge to fabricate fibres that combine conductive and dielectric domains in complex architectures in a simple and scalable way. Here we show that a thermal drawing approach can be used to fabricate stretchable fibre-based sensors from liquid-metal-embedded elastomers. The material formulation and processing parameters can be controlled to create high aspect-ratio stretchable fibres that integrate high-conductivity (around 10<sup>3</sup> S cm<sup>−1</sup>) and high-dielectric (<InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(\kappa \approx 13.5\)</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mrow> <mi>κ</mi> <mo>≈</mo> <mn>13.5</mn> </mrow> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation>) domains across the fibre cross-section. We illustrate the versatility of our approach by creating an all-liquid-metal-based capacitive fibre sensor, which offers a gauge factor of 0.96, stretchability of 925% and high stability to cyclic deformation. We also integrate our fibre-based sensor into textiles and demonstrate an efficient smart knee brace.</p>

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Electronic fibres via the thermal drawing of liquid-metal-embedded elastomers

  • Stella Laperrousaz,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Marion Cleusix,
  • Lucas Jourdan,
  • Laurène Tribolet,
  • Fabien Sorin

摘要

Soft electronic fibres are potential building blocks for a variety of emerging technologies including smart textiles and wearable health monitors. However, it remains a challenge to fabricate fibres that combine conductive and dielectric domains in complex architectures in a simple and scalable way. Here we show that a thermal drawing approach can be used to fabricate stretchable fibre-based sensors from liquid-metal-embedded elastomers. The material formulation and processing parameters can be controlled to create high aspect-ratio stretchable fibres that integrate high-conductivity (around 103 S cm−1) and high-dielectric ( \(\kappa \approx 13.5\) κ 13.5 ) domains across the fibre cross-section. We illustrate the versatility of our approach by creating an all-liquid-metal-based capacitive fibre sensor, which offers a gauge factor of 0.96, stretchability of 925% and high stability to cyclic deformation. We also integrate our fibre-based sensor into textiles and demonstrate an efficient smart knee brace.