Liquid metal and Mxene enable self-healing soft electronics based on double networks of bacterial cellulose hydrogels

Ming Wang; Orlando J. Rojas; Like Ning; Yuehu Li; Xun Niu; Xuetong Shi; Haisong Qi

doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.120330

Liquid metal and Mxene enable self-healing soft electronics based on double networks of bacterial cellulose hydrogels

Ming Wang
, Orlando J. Rojas^*
, Like Ning
, Yuehu Li
, Xun Niu
, Xuetong Shi
, Haisong Qi^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

South China University of Technology
University of British Columbia
Nanjing Forestry University

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Abstract

Liquid metal (LM) nanodroplets and MXene nanosheets are integrated with sulfonated bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) and acrylic acid (AA). Upon fast sonication, AA polymerization leads to a crosslinked composite hydrogel in which BNC exfoliates Mxene, forming organized conductive pathways. Soft conducting properties are achieved in the presence of colloidally stable core-shell LM nanodroplets. Due to the unique gelation mechanism and the effect of Mxene, the hydrogels spontaneously undergo surface wrinkling, which improves their electrical sensitivity (GF = 8.09). The hydrogels are further shown to display interfacial adhesion to a variety of surfaces, ultra-elasticity (tailorable elongation, from 1000 % to 3200 %), indentation resistance and self-healing capabilities. Such properties are demonstrated in wearable, force mapping, multi-sensing and patternable electroluminescence devices.

Original language	English
Article number	120330
Journal	Carbohydrate Polymers
Volume	301
Early online date	15 Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.120330
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2023
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

The authors are grateful for the financial support for this work by Guangdong Province Science Foundation ( 2017GC010429 ) and Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou ( 202002030329 ). M.W., O.J.R, L.N., X.N. and X.S. gratefully acknowledge the Canada Excellence Research Chair Program ( CERC-2018-00006 ), Canada Foundation for Innovation (Project number 38623 ) and ">H2020-ERC-2017-Advanced Grant ‘BioELCell’ ( 788489 ).

Keywords

Bacterial nanocellulose
Electroactive hydrogels
Force mapping
Liquid metals
Self-healing
TiCT MXene

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