Journal
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202006432
Keywords
adhesion; dopamine; self-healing; stretchable electrode
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21875102, 22075130]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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Dopamine was introduced into a hydrogen bonding-based elastomer to create a material with both mechanical strength and adhesion strength. This elastomer showed high stress and fracture strain, along with high adhesive and underwater adhesive strength, making it suitable for a stretchable bio-interfacial electrode with self-healing properties.
Stretchable electrodes are playing important roles in the measurement of bio-electrical signals especially in wearable electronic devices. These electrodes usually adopt commercial elastomers such as polydimethylsiloxane or polystyrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene as substrates, which result in poor stability and reliability due to weak interfacial adhesion between electrodes and human skin. Here, dopamine is introduced into the hydrogen bonding based elastomer as pendent groups. The elastomer shows both mechanical strength and adhesion strength at the same time. It exhibits high stress at break (1.9 MPa) and high fracture strain (5100%). Significantly, it exhibits a high adhesive strength (approximate to 62 kPa) and underwater adhesive strength (approximate to 16 kPa) with epithelial tissue. Thus, a stretchable bio-interfacial electrode is fabricated by spray-coating silver nanowires on the elastic substrate, which is stretchable, self-healable, and highly adhesive and suitable for electromyogram measurement.
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