Stretchable ionic conductors with high transparency and excellent resilience are highly desired for flexible electronics,but traditional ionic conductive hydrogels are easy to dry and freeze.Herein,a newly hybrid cros...Stretchable ionic conductors with high transparency and excellent resilience are highly desired for flexible electronics,but traditional ionic conductive hydrogels are easy to dry and freeze.Herein,a newly hybrid crosslinking strategy is presented for preparing a stretchable and transparent hydrogel by using sodium alginate(SA)and acrylamide based on the unique physically and covalently hybrid crosslinking mechanism,which is transformed into organohydrogel by simple solvent replacement.Due to the combination of hybrid crosslinking double network and hydrogen bond interactions introduced by the glycerin-water binary solvent,the SA-poly(acrylamide)-organohydrogel(SPOH)demonstrates excellent anti-freezing(-20℃)property,stability(>2 days),transparency,stretchability(~1600%)and high ionic conductivity(17.1 mS cm^(-1)).Thus,a triboelectric nanogenerator made from SPOH(O-TENG)shows an instantaneous peak power density of 262 mW m^(-2)at a load resistance of 10 MΩand efficiently harvests biomechanical energy to drive an electronic watch and light-emitting diode.Moreover,The O-TENG exhibits favorable long-term stability(2 weeks)and temperature tolerance(-20℃).In addition,the raw materials can be prepared into SPOH fibers by a simple tubular mold method,exhibiting high transparency,which can be used for laser transmission.The various abilities of the SPOH promise the application of energy harvesting and laser transmission for wearable electronics and biomedical field.展开更多
Controllable formation of microstructures in the assembled graphene film could tune the physical properties and broaden its applications in flexible electronics.Many efforts have been made to control the formation of ...Controllable formation of microstructures in the assembled graphene film could tune the physical properties and broaden its applications in flexible electronics.Many efforts have been made to control the formation of wrinkles and ripples in graphene films.However,the formation of orderly wrinkles in graphene film remains a challenge.Here,we reported a simple strategy for the fabrication of graphene film with periodic and parallel wrinkles with a pre-stretched polydimethylsiloxane substrate.The width of the wrinkles in graphene can be controlled by changing the pre-stretched strain of the substrate.The average width of wrinkles in graphene film on the substrate with pre-stretched strain of 10%,20%,and 50%was about 3.68,2.99 and 2.01µm,respectively.The morphological evolution of wrinkled double-layered graphene under mechanical deformation was observed and studied.Furthermore,a strain sensor was constructed based on the wrinkled graphene,showing high sensitivity,large working range and excellent cyclic stability.These strain sensors show great potential in real-time motion detection,health surveillance and electronic skins.展开更多
Slender chiral filaments are ubiquitous in both artificial and biological materials.Due to their chiral microstructures,chiral filaments usually exhibit favorable properties such as superior elasticity and unusual str...Slender chiral filaments are ubiquitous in both artificial and biological materials.Due to their chiral microstructures,chiral filaments usually exhibit favorable properties such as superior elasticity and unusual stretch-twist coupling deformation.However,how these chiral microstructures affect the elastic behavior of filaments remains unclear.In this paper,a refined Cosserat rod model with misfit or mismatching of chirality induced by inhomogeneous arrangement of chiral microstructures incorporated is developed.Using the refined rod model,the force-displacement relationships and variation of structural chirality during the tensile processes of two typical helical structures,i.e.,single-strand helix and double-strand helix,are investigated.The results show that the misfit of chirality can lead to a bend-twist deformation with a high coupling degree,which makes the rod much“soft”when stretched.The chiral filaments undergo an unusual twist when stretched,corresponding to an obviously nonlinear variation of structural chirality.The work suggests that the misfit of chirality can be used to tune the elastic behavior of chiral filaments,which is helpful in guiding the design of flexible actuators and soft devices.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52002059 and 51872204)the Belt&Road Young Scientist Exchanges Project of Science and Technology Commission Foundation of Shanghai(20520741000)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(20D110631)the State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials(DonghuaUniversity,KF2019)。
文摘Stretchable ionic conductors with high transparency and excellent resilience are highly desired for flexible electronics,but traditional ionic conductive hydrogels are easy to dry and freeze.Herein,a newly hybrid crosslinking strategy is presented for preparing a stretchable and transparent hydrogel by using sodium alginate(SA)and acrylamide based on the unique physically and covalently hybrid crosslinking mechanism,which is transformed into organohydrogel by simple solvent replacement.Due to the combination of hybrid crosslinking double network and hydrogen bond interactions introduced by the glycerin-water binary solvent,the SA-poly(acrylamide)-organohydrogel(SPOH)demonstrates excellent anti-freezing(-20℃)property,stability(>2 days),transparency,stretchability(~1600%)and high ionic conductivity(17.1 mS cm^(-1)).Thus,a triboelectric nanogenerator made from SPOH(O-TENG)shows an instantaneous peak power density of 262 mW m^(-2)at a load resistance of 10 MΩand efficiently harvests biomechanical energy to drive an electronic watch and light-emitting diode.Moreover,The O-TENG exhibits favorable long-term stability(2 weeks)and temperature tolerance(-20℃).In addition,the raw materials can be prepared into SPOH fibers by a simple tubular mold method,exhibiting high transparency,which can be used for laser transmission.The various abilities of the SPOH promise the application of energy harvesting and laser transmission for wearable electronics and biomedical field.
基金This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51772335)the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou(201904010450).
文摘Controllable formation of microstructures in the assembled graphene film could tune the physical properties and broaden its applications in flexible electronics.Many efforts have been made to control the formation of wrinkles and ripples in graphene films.However,the formation of orderly wrinkles in graphene film remains a challenge.Here,we reported a simple strategy for the fabrication of graphene film with periodic and parallel wrinkles with a pre-stretched polydimethylsiloxane substrate.The width of the wrinkles in graphene can be controlled by changing the pre-stretched strain of the substrate.The average width of wrinkles in graphene film on the substrate with pre-stretched strain of 10%,20%,and 50%was about 3.68,2.99 and 2.01µm,respectively.The morphological evolution of wrinkled double-layered graphene under mechanical deformation was observed and studied.Furthermore,a strain sensor was constructed based on the wrinkled graphene,showing high sensitivity,large working range and excellent cyclic stability.These strain sensors show great potential in real-time motion detection,health surveillance and electronic skins.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12020101001,12021002,11872273,and 11890680)Tianjin Research Program of Application Foundation and Advanced Technology(Grant No.19JCYBJC19300).
文摘Slender chiral filaments are ubiquitous in both artificial and biological materials.Due to their chiral microstructures,chiral filaments usually exhibit favorable properties such as superior elasticity and unusual stretch-twist coupling deformation.However,how these chiral microstructures affect the elastic behavior of filaments remains unclear.In this paper,a refined Cosserat rod model with misfit or mismatching of chirality induced by inhomogeneous arrangement of chiral microstructures incorporated is developed.Using the refined rod model,the force-displacement relationships and variation of structural chirality during the tensile processes of two typical helical structures,i.e.,single-strand helix and double-strand helix,are investigated.The results show that the misfit of chirality can lead to a bend-twist deformation with a high coupling degree,which makes the rod much“soft”when stretched.The chiral filaments undergo an unusual twist when stretched,corresponding to an obviously nonlinear variation of structural chirality.The work suggests that the misfit of chirality can be used to tune the elastic behavior of chiral filaments,which is helpful in guiding the design of flexible actuators and soft devices.
