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Author(s):  
Zoe B Rosenberg ◽  
Nate C Weiner ◽  
Hasan Shahariar ◽  
Braden M Li ◽  
Jennifer L Peavey ◽  
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Abstract A flexible, soft thermoelectric cooling device is presented that shows potential for human cooling applications in wearable technologies and close-to-body applications. Current developments lack integration feasibility due to non-scalable assembly procedures and unsuitable materials for comfortable and durable integration into products. Our devices have been created and tested around the need to conform to the human body which we have quantified through the creation of a repeatable drape testing procedure, a metric used in the textile industry. Inspired by mass manufacturing constraints, our flexible thermoelectric devices are created using commercially available materials and scalable processing techniques. Thermoelectric legs are embedded in a foam substrate to provide flexibility, while Kirigami-inspired cuts are patterned on the foam to provide the drape necessary for mimicking the performance of textile and close to body materials. In total, nine different configurations, three different fill factors and three different Kirigami cut patterns were fabricated and inspected for thermal characterization, mechanical testing, flexibility and drape. Our studies show that adding Kirigami patterns can increase the durability of the device, improve the flexibility, decrease the drape coefficient, and have <1% of impact on cooling performance at higher fill factors (>1.5%), reaching temperature differences up to 4.39 ± 0.17°C between the hot and cold faces of the device. These thermoelectric cooling devices show great flexibility, durability, and cooling for integration into soft cooling products.


Author(s):  
Lucy Johnston ◽  
Jiong Yang ◽  
Jialuo Han ◽  
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh ◽  
Jianbo Tang

Liquid metals, highly conductive and flowable metals, are increasingly becoming versatile choices for soft electronics and wearable devices. High resolution liquid metal patterning strategies accommodative to different substrate materials and...


Author(s):  
Ruomei Shao ◽  
Rui Ma ◽  
Xuyao An ◽  
Chunnan Wang ◽  
Shuqing Sun

Recent issues toward ultrathin soft electronics are gradually focused on effective detection under complex environments. The promising strategies for long-term performance are summarized as a roadmap for design and fabrication.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gun-Hee Lee ◽  
Ye RIm Lee ◽  
Hanul Kim ◽  
Do A Kwon ◽  
Hyeonji Kim ◽  
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Abstract Liquid metal (LM) is being regarded as the most feasible material for soft electronics owing to its distinct combination of high conductivity comparable to that of metals and exceptional deformability derived from its liquid state. However, the applicability of LM is still limited due to the difficulty of achieving its mechanical stability and intrinsic conductivity. Furthermore, reliable and rapid patterning of stable LM directly on various soft substrates at high-resolution remains a formidable challenge. In this work, meniscus-guided printing of ink containing polyelectrolyte-attached LM microgranular-particle (PaLMP) in an aqueous solvent to generate semi-solid-state LM is presented. PaLMP printed in the evaporative regime is mechanically stable, intrinsically conductive, and patternable down to 50 µm on various substrates. Demonstrations of the ultrastretchable (~500% strain) electrical circuit, customized e-skin, and zero-waste ECG sensor validate the simplicity, versatility, and reliability of this manufacturing strategy, enabling broad utility in the development of advanced soft electronics.


2021 ◽  
pp. 2101034
Author(s):  
Young‐Geun Park ◽  
Jiuk Jang ◽  
Hyobeom Kim ◽  
Jae Chul Hwang ◽  
Yong Won Kwon ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (38) ◽  
pp. e2111904118
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Sunghoon Lee ◽  
Haoyang Wang ◽  
Zhi Jiang ◽  
Yasutoshi Jimbo ◽  
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Robust polymeric nanofilms can be used to construct gas-permeable soft electronics that can directly adhere to soft biological tissue for continuous, long-term biosignal monitoring. However, it is challenging to fabricate gas-permeable dry electrodes that can self-adhere to the human skin and retain their functionality for long-term (>1 d) health monitoring. We have succeeded in developing an extraordinarily robust, self-adhesive, gas-permeable nanofilm with a thickness of only 95 nm. It exhibits an extremely high skin adhesion energy per unit area of 159 μJ/cm2. The nanofilm can self-adhere to the human skin by van der Waals forces alone, for 1 wk, without any adhesive materials or tapes. The nanofilm is ultradurable, and it can support liquids that are 79,000 times heavier than its own weight with a tensile stress of 7.82 MPa. The advantageous features of its thinness, self-adhesiveness, and robustness enable a gas-permeable dry electrode comprising of a nanofilm and an Au layer, resulting in a continuous monitoring of electrocardiogram signals with a high signal-to-noise ratio (34 dB) for 1 wk.


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2021 ◽  
pp. 2103836
Author(s):  
Hai Chao Yu ◽  
Xing Peng Hao ◽  
Chuan Wei Zhang ◽  
Si Yu Zheng ◽  
Miao Du ◽  
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