Advanced soft materials, sensor integrations, and applications of wearable flexible hybrid electronics in healthcare, energy, and environment

HR Lim, HS Kim, R Qazi, YT Kwon… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in soft materials and system integration technologies have provided a
unique opportunity to design various types of wearable flexible hybrid electronics (WFHE) …

Liquid metal patterning and unique properties for next‐generation soft electronics

M Kim, H Lim, SH Ko - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Room‐temperature liquid metal (LM)‐based electronics is expected to bring advancements
in future soft electronics owing to its conductivity, conformability, stretchability, and …

Multilayered electronic transfer tattoo that can enable the crease amplification effect

L Tang, J Shang, X Jiang - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Electronic tattoos have great potential in health and movement sensing applications on the
skin. However, existing electronic tattoos cannot be conformal, sticky, and multilayered at the …

3D printing of liquid metals: Recent advancements and challenges

Z Zou, Y Chen, S Yuan, N Luo, J Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of flexible electronics (FEs) has rapidly accelerated in numerous fields
due to their exceptional deformability, bending, and stretchability. Room‐temperature …

Imbibition-induced selective wetting of liquid metal

JH Kim, S Kim, H Kim, S Wooh, J Cho… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Herein, we present the imbibition-induced, spontaneous, and selective wetting
characteristics of gallium-based liquid metal alloys on a metallized surface with micro-scale …

3D/4D-printed bending-type soft pneumatic actuators: Fabrication, modelling, and control

A Zolfagharian, MAP Mahmud, S Gharaie… - Virtual and Physical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article reviews soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) that are manufactured entirely via
additive manufacturing methods. These actuators are known as four-dimensional (4D) …

[HTML][HTML] Closed-loop 4D-printed soft robots

A Zolfagharian, A Kaynak, A Kouzani - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Soft robotics is a recent and rapidly growing field of research that encompasses emerging
advances in functional materials, fabrication, modelling, and performance control with …

Reversible polymer-gel transition for ultra-stretchable chip-integrated circuits through self-soldering and self-coating and self-healing

PA Lopes, BC Santos, AT de Almeida… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Integration of solid-state microchips into soft-matter, and stretchable printed electronics has
been the biggest challenge against their scalable fabrication. We introduce, Pol-Gel, a …

Liquid metal–based soft microfluidics

L Zhu, B Wang, S Handschuh‐Wang, X Zhou - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Motivated by the increasing demand of wearable and soft electronics, liquid metal (LM)‐
based microfluidics has been subjected to tremendous development in the past decade …

[HTML][HTML] A review of printable flexible and stretchable tactile sensors

KS Kumar, PY Chen, H Ren - Research, 2019 - spj.science.org
Flexible and stretchable tactile sensors that are printable, nonplanar, and dynamically
morphing are emerging to enable proprioceptive interactions with the unstructured …