Versatile Liquid Metal Composite Inks for Printable, Durable, and Ultra-Stretchable Electronics.

ABSTRACT: Liquid metal (LM) offers exceptional potential for stretchable and flexible applications due to its outstanding stretchability, flexibility, and electrical conductivity. The inherent characteristics of LM-such as high surface tension, low viscosity, poor wettability, and sintering challenges-pose significant obstacles for use in commercial printing. To overcome these, a self-sintering liquid metal composite particle (LMCP) ink with tunable surface tension, viscosity, and wettability is developed. LMCP inks are tailored for commercial printing processes requiring low surface tension and high viscosity, enabling printing on diverse substrates. The ink achieves coffee-ring-free, crack-free, bilayer-free, and post-processing-free deposition through simple evaporation under ambient conditions,

SUBMITTER: Pyeon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12530020 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature