Recent advances in conductive hydrogels: classifications, properties, and applications

T Zhu, Y Ni, GM Biesold, Y Cheng, M Ge, H Li… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogel-based conductive materials for smart wearable devices have attracted increasing
attention due to their excellent flexibility, versatility, and outstanding biocompatibility. This …

Hydrogels for flexible electronics

Y Zhang, Y Tan, J Lao, H Gao, J Yu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels have emerged as promising materials for flexible electronics due to their unique
properties, such as high water content, softness, and biocompatibility. In this perspective, we …

Super stretchable, self‐healing, adhesive ionic conductive hydrogels based on tailor‐made ionic liquid for high‐performance strain sensors

X Yao, S Zhang, L Qian, N Wei, V Nica… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ionic conductive hydrogels (ICHs) integrate the conductive performance and soft nature of
tissue‐like materials to imitate the features of human skin with mechanical and sensory …

All-round supramolecular zwitterionic hydrogel electrolytes enabling environmentally adaptive dendrite-free aqueous zinc ion capacitors

Q Fu, S Hao, X Zhang, H Zhao, F Xu… - Energy & Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Aqueous zinc ion capacitors (ZICs) with hydrogel electrolytes (HEs) exhibit the advantages
of high sustainability, inherent safety, appealing energy/power densities, and extraordinary …

A Bio‐Inspired Trehalose Additive for Reversible Zinc Anodes with Improved Stability and Kinetics

H Li, Y Ren, Y Zhu, J Tian, X Sun, C Sheng… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The moderate reversibility of Zn anodes, as a long‐standing challenge in aqueous zinc‐ion
batteries, promotes the exploration of suitable electrolyte additives continuously. It is crucial …

Water-modulated biomimetic hyper-attribute-gel electronic skin for robotics and skin-attachable wearables

S Duan, Q Shi, J Hong, D Zhu, Y Lin, Y Li, W Lei… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electronic skin (e-skin), mimicking the physical–chemical and sensory properties of human
skin, is promising to be applied as robotic skins and skin-attachable wearables with …

Trehalose-enhanced ionic conductive hydrogels with extreme stretchability, self-adhesive and anti-freezing abilities for both flexible strain sensor and all-solid-state …

H Cai, D Zhang, H Zhang, M Tang, Z Xu, H Xia… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flexible strain sensors and flexible supercapacitors have generated a lot of interest because
of their great potential to be used in flexible electronic equipment. Ionic hydrogels are ideal …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printing of polymer composites to fabricate wearable sensors: A comprehensive review

A Osman, J Lu - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of wearable sensors in domains related to healthcare systems, human
motion detection, robotics, and human–machine interactions has attracted significant …

Self-adhesive, anti-freezing MXene-based hydrogel strain sensor for motion monitoring and handwriting recognition with deep learning

Y Ma, D Zhang, Z Wang, H Zhang, H Xia… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Flexible strain sensors based on self-adhesive, high-tensile, super-sensitive conductive
hydrogels have promising application in human–computer interaction and motion …

A strategy for tough and fatigue-resistant hydrogels via loose cross-linking and dense dehydration-induced entanglements

D Zhong, Z Wang, J Xu, J Liu, R Xiao, S Qu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Outstanding overall mechanical properties are essential for the successful utilization of
hydrogels in advanced applications such as human-machine interfaces and soft robotics …