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Avalanche Coalescence of Liquid Metal Particles for Uniform Flexible and Stretchable Electrodes
Korea Adv Inst Sci & Technol, Dept Mech Engn, Daejeon 34141, South Korea..
Korea Adv Inst Sci & Technol, Dept Mech Engn, Daejeon 34141, South Korea..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1651-6728
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Microsystems Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0001-3197
Korea Adv Inst Sci & Technol, Dept Mech Engn, Daejeon 34141, South Korea..
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2022 (English)In: Advanced Materials Interfaces, ISSN 2196-7350, Vol. 9, no 35, article id 2201693Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Self-sinterable gallium-based liquid metal (LM) ink for a handy drop-casting coating method is developed. The fabricated LM electrode is coffee-ring-free and bilayer-free, which guarantees high electrical conductivity, wettability, flexibility, and stretchability. The ink consists of Galinstan, ethanol-water mixture, hydrochloric acid, and polyvinylpyrrolidone. The binary mixture provides excellent wetting conditions and suppresses a coffee-ring stain from Marangoni mixing. The acid removes an oxide layer on the LM interface. The colloidal interaction forces by self-assembled polyvinylpyrrolidone induce avalanche coalescences of the particles at the end of evaporation, which produces a thin and uniform dried conductive layer. The acid and polymer provide a bilayer-free structure and electrification without any post sintering. The drop-casted self-transformed LM electrode showed excellent electrical resistance of O (0.1-1 omega) on folding and stretching conditions. It is believed that this method can serve as flexible and stretchable electrodes, on various substances for soft robots and wearable devices, without any complicated post-process.

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John Wiley & Sons, 2022. Vol. 9, no 35, article id 2201693
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conductive ink, flexible electrodes, flexible electronics, liquid metal, self-sintering
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Materials Chemistry
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-496954DOI: 10.1002/admi.202201693ISI: 000879658100001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-496954DiVA, id: diva2:1738529
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The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), KO 2017-7338Available from: 2023-02-22 Created: 2023-02-22 Last updated: 2023-02-22Bibliographically approved

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