Liquid-Free Ion-Conducting Elastomer with Environmental Stability for Soft Sensing and Thermoelectric Generating

Ionic conductors are promising candidates for fabricating soft electronics, but currently applied ionic hydrogels and organogels suffer from liquid leakage and evaporation issues. Herein, we fabricated a free-liquid ionic conducting elastomer (LFICE) with dry lithium bis­(trifluoromethane sulfonimid...

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Veröffentlicht in:ACS applied materials & interfaces 2022-08, Vol.14 (34), p.39120-39131
Hauptverfasser: Zhou, Rong, Jin, Yong, Zeng, Wenhua, Jin, Hongyu, Bai, Long, Shi, Liangjie, Shang, Xiang
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Zusammenfassung:Ionic conductors are promising candidates for fabricating soft electronics, but currently applied ionic hydrogels and organogels suffer from liquid leakage and evaporation issues. Herein, we fabricated a free-liquid ionic conducting elastomer (LFICE) with dry lithium bis­(trifluoromethane sulfonimide) and elastomeric waterborne polyurethane. The resultant versatile LFICE exhibits superior tensile strength (∼4.5 MPa), satisfactory stretchability (>900%), excellent ionic conductivity (8.32 × 10–4 S m–1 at 25 °C), and sensitive strain (3.21) and temperature (2.22% °C–1) response. The LFICE also presents durable environmental stability due to the all-solid-state feature. In the exploration of application prospects, the as-assembled LFICE sensor can precisely and repeatedly detect human motion and temperature changes, demonstrating its potentials in digital medical diagnosis and monitoring; the as-assembled LFICE thermoelectric generator (TEG) shows a high ionic thermovoltage of 4.41 mV K–1, paving a bright path for the advent of self-powered soft electronics. It is believed that this research boosts the facile fabrication of environmental stable stretchable ionic conductors holding great promise in next-generation soft electronics integrated with dual thermo- and strain-response and energy harvesting.
ISSN:1944-8244
1944-8252
DOI:10.1021/acsami.2c09208