Flexible electronic devices with mechanical properties like the soft tissues of human organs have great potential for the next generation of wearable and implantable electronic devices.Self-healing hydrogel composites...Flexible electronic devices with mechanical properties like the soft tissues of human organs have great potential for the next generation of wearable and implantable electronic devices.Self-healing hydrogel composites typically have high tensile strength,high electrical conductivity and damage repair properties and have wide applications in flexible electronics,such as human-computer interaction,health detection and soft robots.Various self-healing hydrogel composites have been developed to produce new stretchable conductive materials with satisfactory mechanical and selfhealing properties.This paper presents the fabrication of self-healing hydrogel composites and their application in flexible electronic devices.Firstly,the repair mechanism of physically cross-linked and chemically cross-linked self-healing hydrogel composites is presented.Secondly,self-healing double network hydrogels,self-healing nanocomposite hydrogels and double crosslinked self-healing hydrogel composites and their applications in flexible sensors,energy harvesting devices,energy storage devices and optical devices are presented and discussed.Finally,the challenges and prospects of self-healing hydrogel composites in flexible electronic devices in the future are presented.展开更多
基金supported by the Linyi University 2023 High-level Talents(PhD)Research Start-up Fund(Natural Sciences)(Nos.Z6124014 and Z6124015)the College Students’Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program(No.X202310452291)+1 种基金the Key Research and Development Project for the Highlevel Technological Talent of Lvlang City(Nos.2023GXYF09 and 2022RC15)Scientific Research Start-up Funds of Lyuliang University.
文摘Flexible electronic devices with mechanical properties like the soft tissues of human organs have great potential for the next generation of wearable and implantable electronic devices.Self-healing hydrogel composites typically have high tensile strength,high electrical conductivity and damage repair properties and have wide applications in flexible electronics,such as human-computer interaction,health detection and soft robots.Various self-healing hydrogel composites have been developed to produce new stretchable conductive materials with satisfactory mechanical and selfhealing properties.This paper presents the fabrication of self-healing hydrogel composites and their application in flexible electronic devices.Firstly,the repair mechanism of physically cross-linked and chemically cross-linked self-healing hydrogel composites is presented.Secondly,self-healing double network hydrogels,self-healing nanocomposite hydrogels and double crosslinked self-healing hydrogel composites and their applications in flexible sensors,energy harvesting devices,energy storage devices and optical devices are presented and discussed.Finally,the challenges and prospects of self-healing hydrogel composites in flexible electronic devices in the future are presented.