Research progress of flexible electronic devices based on conductive fibers

ZHANG Wenxiao; ZUO Xingwei; QU Lijun; ZHANG Xueji; MIAO Jinlei

doi:10.13801/j.cnki.fhclxb.20220511.002

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ZHANG Wenxiao, ZUO Xingwei, QU Lijun, ZHANG Xueji, MIAO Jinlei. Research progress of flexible electronic devices based on conductive fibers[J]. Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica, 2023, 40(2): 688-709. doi: 10.13801/j.cnki.fhclxb.20220511.002

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ZHANG Wenxiao, ZUO Xingwei, QU Lijun, ZHANG Xueji, MIAO Jinlei. Research progress of flexible electronic devices based on conductive fibers[J]. Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica, 2023, 40(2): 688-709. doi: 10.13801/j.cnki.fhclxb.20220511.002

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Research progress of flexible electronic devices based on conductive fibers

doi: 10.13801/j.cnki.fhclxb.20220511.002

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College of Textiles and Clothing, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
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School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

Funds: Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (ZR2020 QE081); Shandong Province Key Research and Development Plan (Major Scientifc and Technological Innovation Projects) (2019 JZZY010340; 2019 JZZY010335; 2019 GGX102022); China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020 M671994)

Received Date: 2022-03-16
Accepted Date: 2022-05-03
Rev Recd Date: 2022-04-26

Available Online: 2022-05-12

Publish Date: 2023-02-01

Abstract

Abstract

Flexible electronics have excellent flexibility, enabling seamless integration with clothing, and have great potential in various practical wearable applications. One-dimensional fibrous electronic devices have become a research hotspot in the field of smart wearables due to their excellent flexibility, weavability and comfort. First, the research progress of one-dimensional stretchable electrodes for fiber-like flexible electronic devices is reviewed, and then introduced the high-performance one-dimensional fibrous flexible electronics representative during the preparation of conductive material, manufacturing technology, as well as the further application of the one-dimensional flexible fiber become various main preparation methods for all kinds of electronic devices. Finally, we think critically about the opportunities and challenges of one-dimensional wikis smart wearable electronics.
- one-dimensional fiber base,
- conductive materials,
- manufacture method,
- flexible electronic devices,
- after-processing
Long Abstrsct
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