journal article·2025-02Open access

Dynamic Liquid Metal–Microfiber Interlocking Enables Highly Conductive and Strain‐insensitive Metastructured Fibers for Wearable Electronics

Rouhui Yu, Liang Wu, Zhonghua Yang, Jin Wu, Huifang Chen, Shaowu Pan, Meifang Zhu

Advanced Materials· Volume 37· Issue 6

Abstract

Abstract Stretchable fibers with high conductivity are vital components for smart textiles and wearable electronics. However, embedding solid conductive materials in polymers significantly reduces conductive pathways when stretched, causing a sharp drop in conductivity. Here, a stretchable metastructured fiber with dynamic liquid metal–microfiber interlocking interface is reported to realize highly conductive yet ultrastable conductance. The Cu‐EGaIn mixture is partially embedded within the porous microfiber mat, thereby enabling its roll‐up into a spiral‐layered metastructured fiber with self‐compensating conductive pathways. The metastructured fiber shows outstanding performance, including high conductivity of 1.5 × 106 S m−1, large stretchability up to 629%, and ultrastable conductance with only 16% relative resistance change at 100% strain, which far surpasses the theoretical value. Moreover, these fibers have served as versatile platforms for wearable temperature‐visualizing electrothermal fiber heaters and fully stretchable smart sensing‐display fabrics. This dynamic solid–liquid interfacial interlocking strategy is promising for stretchable electronics.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials · Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies · Advanced Materials and Mechanics

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials College of Materials Science and Engineering Donghua University Shanghai 201620 China

State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies and the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology School of Electronics and Information Technology Sun Yat‐sen University Guangzhou 510275 China

Funding

Key Technologies Research and Development Program · Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities · National Natural Science Foundation of China

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