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An interfacial robust and entire self-healing ionogel-elastomer hybrid for elastic electronics enables discretionary assembly and reconfiguration

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Inspired by the multi-layer architecture of mammal skins, interfacial robust, stretchable, and entirely healable gel-elastomer hybrids hold great potential in diverse fields including biomedical devices, wearable electrical devices, and soft robotics. However, existing gel-elastomer hybrids have numerous limitations including low interfacial bonding toughness, complex and time-consuming preparation process, unhealable, and non-reconfiguration. Herein, we propose a simple and general chemical strategy through the interfacial dynamic bonding between gel and elastomer to simultaneously address the abovementioned obstacles. Dynamic covalent bonds readily and repeatably covalent bonding ionogel and elastomer (interfacial toughness: 390 J m−2), endowed the hybrids with entire self-healing features like skin and enabled discretionary assembly and reconfiguration. Moreover, this strategy resolved the troublesome contradiction between interfacial stability and reconfiguration. Taking advantage of the aforementioned features, we readily constructed a multi-module, self-healing, self-powered, and realtime monitoring of personal status integrated elastic electronics, which could simply reconfigure the output signal of elastic electronics into an input signal of the devices-braille keyboard.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFC2101800, 2021YFC2400802), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52173117, 21991123), the Ningbo 2025 Science and Technology Major Project (2019B10068) and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai (20DZ2254900, 20DZ2270800).

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Institute of Functional Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Research Base of Textile Materials for Flexible Electronics and Biomedical Applications (China Textile Engineering Society), Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Nano-Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine, Shanghai, 201620, China

    Lei Yang, Lijie Sun, Hongfei Huang & Zhengwei You

  2. Department of Polymer Engineering, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, 9617976487, Iran

    Rasoul Esmaeely Neisiany

  3. Biotechnology Centre, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, 44-100, Poland

    Rasoul Esmaeely Neisiany

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Yang, L., Sun, L., Huang, H. et al. An interfacial robust and entire self-healing ionogel-elastomer hybrid for elastic electronics enables discretionary assembly and reconfiguration. Sci. China Chem. 67, 1316–1323 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-023-1904-0

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