Liquid Metal‐Enhanced Highly Adhesive Electrodes for Multifunctional Epidermal Bioelectronics
Liquid metal (LM) bioelectronics find widespread uses in healthcare devices and medical implants. However, the current LM‐based electrodes suffer from achieving a combination of features including stable conductivity, high tissue adhesion, stability, good biocompatibility, degradability, and recycla...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Advanced functional materials 2024-10, Vol.34 (40), p.n/a |
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Zusammenfassung: | Liquid metal (LM) bioelectronics find widespread uses in healthcare devices and medical implants. However, the current LM‐based electrodes suffer from achieving a combination of features including stable conductivity, high tissue adhesion, stability, good biocompatibility, degradability, and recyclability. In this work, a stable LM electrode is prepared with an extremely high adhesion strength (8.9 MPa), which is tunable in a wide range by introducing an adhesive ureidopyrimidinone (UPy)‐based polymer to harvest the abovementioned properties. With the help of dynamic LM particle‐polymer interactions in the polymer matrix, LMs can not only enhance the adhesion properties but also form a percolated network at a low LM loading (38 vol%) to achieve a high conductance stability (R/R0 = 0.76 at 100% strain). The high adhesion strength provides a highly stable electrical connection with rigid components with a high stretchability of 1154% when mounting a resistor, while a relatively low adhesion makes it a comfortable wounded skin‐interfaced electrode for accelerating wound healing. Taking advantage of their tunable surface adhesion and biocompatibility, the as‐prepared LM electrodes provide a more reliable and friendly approach to the development of healthcare devices.
A stable LM electrode with an extremely high adhesion strength, which is tunable in a wide range, is designed by introducing an adhesive UPy‐based polymer. Taking advantage of their tunable surface adhesion and good biocompatibility, the as‐prepared LM electrodes can be used to achieve solderless electronic assembly, precisely record epidermal biopotentials, and accelerate wound healing without secondary harm. |
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ISSN: | 1616-301X 1616-3028 |
DOI: | 10.1002/adfm.202403671 |