ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 5, 2025

With the rapid development of flexible electronics in wearable devices, healthcare and Internet Things (IoT), liquid metals (LMs)-based hydrogels have emerged as cutting-edge functional materials due to their high electrical conductivity, tunable mechanical properties, excellent biocompatibility, unique self-healing properties. Through various physical or chemical methods, LMs can be integrated form multifunctional LMs-based hydrogels, thus broadening potential application fields. In this Review, recent advancement for is comprehensively systematically reviewed from three aspects synthesis applications. For first time, existing innovative methods are classified summarized, including patterned on/inside hydrogel substrates, conductive fillers polymeric initiators cross-linkers with organic/inorganic materials. The mechanism also stated detail highlight multiple roles adjusting versatile applications electronics, sensors, wireless communications, electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, soft robot actuators, energy storage conversion, etc., separately described. Finally, current challenges future prospects proposed.

Language: Английский