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Title: Extremely stretchable and self-healing conductor based on thermoplastic elastomer for all-three-dimensional printed triboelectric nanogenerator
Authors: Parida, Kaushik
Thangavel, Gurunathan
Cai, Guofa
Zhou, Xinran
Park, Sangbaek
Xiong, Jiaqing
Lee, Pooi See
Keywords: Engineering::Materials
Issue Date: 2019
Source: Parida, K., Thangavel, G., Cai, G., Zhou, X., Park, S., Xiong, J. & Lee, P. S. (2019). Extremely stretchable and self-healing conductor based on thermoplastic elastomer for all-three-dimensional printed triboelectric nanogenerator. Nature Communications, 10, 2158-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10061-y
Project: NRF-CRP13-2014-02 
NRF-NRFI2016-05 
Journal: Nature Communications 
Series/Report no.: Nature Communications
Abstract: Advances in next-generation soft electronic devices rely on the development of highly deformable, healable, and printable energy generators to power these electronics. Development of deformable or wearable energy generators that can simultaneously attain extreme stretchability with superior healability remains a daunting challenge. We address this issue by developing a highly conductive, extremely stretchable, and healable composite based on thermoplastic elastomer with liquid metal and silver flakes as the stretchable conductor for triboelectric nanogenerators. The elastomer is used both as the matrix for the conductor and as the triboelectric layer. The nanogenerator showed a stretchability of 2500% and it recovered its energy-harvesting performance after extreme mechanical damage, due to the supramolecular hydrogen bonding of the thermoplastic elastomer. The composite of the thermoplastic elastomer, liquid metal particles, and silver flakes exhibited an initial conductivity of 6250 S cm−1 and recovered 96.0% of its conductivity after healing.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86573
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49861
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10061-y
DOI (Related Dataset): 10.21979/N9/30GZA3
Schools: School of Materials Science & Engineering 
Organisations: Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) 
Rights: © 2019 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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