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ArticleNature communications2024

Consecutive multimaterial printing of biomimetic ionic hydrogel power sources with high flexibility and stretchability.

Pei He, Junyu Yue, Zhennan Qiu, Zijie Meng, Jiankang He, Dichen Li

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Ionogel-based flexible electronics.National science review · 2026
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  5. Gel-Based Ionic Circuits.Chemical reviews · 2025
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6 authors.

Pei HeState Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China.
Junyu YueState Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China.
Zhennan QiuState Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China.
Zijie MengState Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5375-5162
Jiankang HeState Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China. jiankanghe@mail.xjtu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9386-5833
Dichen LiState Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52125501
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electric eel is an excellent example to harness ion-concentration gradients for sustainable power generation. However, current strategies to create electric-eel-inspired power sources commonly involve manual stacking of multiple salinity-gradient power source units, resulting in low efficiency, unstable contact, and poor flexibility. Here we propose a consecutive multimaterial printing strategy to efficiently fabricate biomimetic ionic hydrogel power sources with a maximum stretchability of 137%. The consecutively-printed ionic hydrogel power source filaments showed seamless bonding interface and can maintain stable voltage outputs for 1000 stretching cycles at 100% strain. With arrayed multi-channel printhead, power sources with a maximum voltage of 208 V can be automatically printed and assembled in parallel within 30 min. The as-printed flexible power source filaments can be woven into a wristband to power a digital wristwatch. The presented strategy provides a tool to efficiently produce electric-eel-inspired ionic hydrogel power sources with great stretchability for various flexible power source applications.

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PMCPMC11187209

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