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ArticleNature communications2023

Conductive and elastic bottlebrush elastomers for ultrasoft electronics.

Pengfei Xu, Shaojia Wang, Angela Lin, Hyun-Kee Min, Zhanfeng Zhou, Wenkun Dou, Yu Sun, Xi Huang, Helen Tran, Xinyu Liu

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
14.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pengfei XuDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3414-4662
Shaojia WangDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8, Canada.
Angela LinDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6628-6713
Hyun-Kee MinProgram in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada.
Zhanfeng ZhouDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8, Canada.
Wenkun DouDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9686-8597
Yu SunDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7895-0741
Xi HuangProgram in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7177-7525
Helen TranDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6, Canada. tran@utoronto.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-4041-7340
Xinyu LiuDepartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8, Canada. xyliu@mie.utoronto.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-5705-9765
University of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding biological systems and mimicking their functions require electronic tools that can interact with biological tissues with matched softness. These tools involve biointerfacing materials that should concurrently match the softness of biological tissue and exhibit suitable electrical conductivities for recording and reading bioelectronic signals. However, commonly employed intrinsically soft and stretchable materials usually contain solvents that limit stability for long-term use or possess low electronic conductivity. To date, an ultrasoft (i.e., Young's modulus <30 kPa), conductive, and solvent-free elastomer does not exist. Additionally, integrating such ultrasoft and conductive materials into electronic devices is poorly explored. This article reports a solvent-free, ultrasoft and conductive PDMS bottlebrush elastomer (BBE) composite with single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) as conductive fillers. The conductive SWCNT/BBE with a filler concentration of 0.4 - 0.6 wt% reveals an ultralow Young's modulus (<11 kPa) and satisfactory conductivity (>2 S/m) as well as adhesion property. Furthermore, we fabricate ultrasoft electronics based on laser cutting and 3D printing of conductive and non-conductive BBEs and demonstrate their potential applications in wearable sensing, soft robotics, and electrophysiological recording.

Indexed as

ElastomersNanotubes, CarbonElastic ModulusElectric ConductivityElectronicsElastomersNanotubes, Carbon

Identifiers

PMID36739447
PMCPMC9899285
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