Self-Healing Flexible Conductive Film by Repairing Defects via Flowable Liquid Metal Droplets

Self-healing flexible conductive films have been fabricated, evaluated, and applied. The film is composed of a fragile indium tin oxide (ITO) layer covered with sprayed liquid metal (LM) droplets. Self-healing of electrical conductivity is achieved via spontaneous capillary wicking of LM droplets in...

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Autores principales: Niu, Ruiwen, Jin, Mingliang, Cao, Jieping, Yan, Zhibin, Gao, Jinwei, Wu, Hao, Zhou, Guofu, Shui, Lingling
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6412573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30754642
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi10020113
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author Niu, Ruiwen
Jin, Mingliang
Cao, Jieping
Yan, Zhibin
Gao, Jinwei
Wu, Hao
Zhou, Guofu
Shui, Lingling
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Jin, Mingliang
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description Self-healing flexible conductive films have been fabricated, evaluated, and applied. The film is composed of a fragile indium tin oxide (ITO) layer covered with sprayed liquid metal (LM) droplets. Self-healing of electrical conductivity is achieved via spontaneous capillary wicking of LM droplets into cracks/defects of the ITO film. The liquid metal adhering onto the ITO layer can also connect the ITO fragments during bending to keep the overall conductivity of the composite LM/ITO film stable. Stable and reversible electrowetting performance has been achieved with the composite LM/ITO as the conductive film, in either flat or curved states.
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spelling pubmed-64125732019-04-09 Self-Healing Flexible Conductive Film by Repairing Defects via Flowable Liquid Metal Droplets Niu, Ruiwen Jin, Mingliang Cao, Jieping Yan, Zhibin Gao, Jinwei Wu, Hao Zhou, Guofu Shui, Lingling Micromachines (Basel) Communication Self-healing flexible conductive films have been fabricated, evaluated, and applied. The film is composed of a fragile indium tin oxide (ITO) layer covered with sprayed liquid metal (LM) droplets. Self-healing of electrical conductivity is achieved via spontaneous capillary wicking of LM droplets into cracks/defects of the ITO film. The liquid metal adhering onto the ITO layer can also connect the ITO fragments during bending to keep the overall conductivity of the composite LM/ITO film stable. Stable and reversible electrowetting performance has been achieved with the composite LM/ITO as the conductive film, in either flat or curved states. MDPI 2019-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6412573/ /pubmed/30754642 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi10020113 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Yan, Zhibin
Gao, Jinwei
Wu, Hao
Zhou, Guofu
Shui, Lingling
Self-Healing Flexible Conductive Film by Repairing Defects via Flowable Liquid Metal Droplets
title Self-Healing Flexible Conductive Film by Repairing Defects via Flowable Liquid Metal Droplets
title_full Self-Healing Flexible Conductive Film by Repairing Defects via Flowable Liquid Metal Droplets
title_fullStr Self-Healing Flexible Conductive Film by Repairing Defects via Flowable Liquid Metal Droplets
title_full_unstemmed Self-Healing Flexible Conductive Film by Repairing Defects via Flowable Liquid Metal Droplets
title_short Self-Healing Flexible Conductive Film by Repairing Defects via Flowable Liquid Metal Droplets
title_sort self-healing flexible conductive film by repairing defects via flowable liquid metal droplets
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6412573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30754642
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi10020113
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