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A Super‐Stretchable Liquid Metal Foamed Elastomer for Tunable Control of Electromagnetic Waves and Thermal Transport

It is remarkably desirable and challenging to design a stretchable conductive material with tunable electromagnetic‐interference (EMI) shielding and heat transfer for applications in flexible electronics. However, the existing materials sustained a severe attenuation of performances when largely str...

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Autores principales: Yu, Dehai, Liao, Yue, Song, Yingchao, Wang, Shilong, Wan, Haoyu, Zeng, Yanhong, Yin, Tao, Yang, Wenhao, He, Zhizhu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32596119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202000177
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author Yu, Dehai
Liao, Yue
Song, Yingchao
Wang, Shilong
Wan, Haoyu
Zeng, Yanhong
Yin, Tao
Yang, Wenhao
He, Zhizhu
author_facet Yu, Dehai
Liao, Yue
Song, Yingchao
Wang, Shilong
Wan, Haoyu
Zeng, Yanhong
Yin, Tao
Yang, Wenhao
He, Zhizhu
author_sort Yu, Dehai
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description It is remarkably desirable and challenging to design a stretchable conductive material with tunable electromagnetic‐interference (EMI) shielding and heat transfer for applications in flexible electronics. However, the existing materials sustained a severe attenuation of performances when largely stretched. Here, a super‐stretchable (800% strain) liquid metal foamed elastomer composite (LMF‐EC) is reported, achieving super‐high electrical (≈10(4) S cm(−1)) and thermal (17.6 W mK(−1)) conductivities under a large strain of 400%, which also exhibits unexpected stretching‐enhanced EMI shielding effectiveness of 85 dB due to the conductive network elongation and reorientation. By varying the liquid and solid states of LMF, the stretching can enable a multifunctional reversible switch that simultaneously regulates the thermal, electrical, and electromagnetic wave transport. Novel flexible temperature control and a thermoelectric system based on LMF‐EC is furthermore developed. This work is a significant step toward the development of smart electromagnetic and thermal regulator for stretchable electronics.
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spelling pubmed-73123082020-06-25 A Super‐Stretchable Liquid Metal Foamed Elastomer for Tunable Control of Electromagnetic Waves and Thermal Transport Yu, Dehai Liao, Yue Song, Yingchao Wang, Shilong Wan, Haoyu Zeng, Yanhong Yin, Tao Yang, Wenhao He, Zhizhu Adv Sci (Weinh) Communications It is remarkably desirable and challenging to design a stretchable conductive material with tunable electromagnetic‐interference (EMI) shielding and heat transfer for applications in flexible electronics. However, the existing materials sustained a severe attenuation of performances when largely stretched. Here, a super‐stretchable (800% strain) liquid metal foamed elastomer composite (LMF‐EC) is reported, achieving super‐high electrical (≈10(4) S cm(−1)) and thermal (17.6 W mK(−1)) conductivities under a large strain of 400%, which also exhibits unexpected stretching‐enhanced EMI shielding effectiveness of 85 dB due to the conductive network elongation and reorientation. By varying the liquid and solid states of LMF, the stretching can enable a multifunctional reversible switch that simultaneously regulates the thermal, electrical, and electromagnetic wave transport. Novel flexible temperature control and a thermoelectric system based on LMF‐EC is furthermore developed. This work is a significant step toward the development of smart electromagnetic and thermal regulator for stretchable electronics. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7312308/ /pubmed/32596119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202000177 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Communications
Yu, Dehai
Liao, Yue
Song, Yingchao
Wang, Shilong
Wan, Haoyu
Zeng, Yanhong
Yin, Tao
Yang, Wenhao
He, Zhizhu
A Super‐Stretchable Liquid Metal Foamed Elastomer for Tunable Control of Electromagnetic Waves and Thermal Transport
title A Super‐Stretchable Liquid Metal Foamed Elastomer for Tunable Control of Electromagnetic Waves and Thermal Transport
title_full A Super‐Stretchable Liquid Metal Foamed Elastomer for Tunable Control of Electromagnetic Waves and Thermal Transport
title_fullStr A Super‐Stretchable Liquid Metal Foamed Elastomer for Tunable Control of Electromagnetic Waves and Thermal Transport
title_full_unstemmed A Super‐Stretchable Liquid Metal Foamed Elastomer for Tunable Control of Electromagnetic Waves and Thermal Transport
title_short A Super‐Stretchable Liquid Metal Foamed Elastomer for Tunable Control of Electromagnetic Waves and Thermal Transport
title_sort super‐stretchable liquid metal foamed elastomer for tunable control of electromagnetic waves and thermal transport
topic Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32596119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202000177
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