Highly Adhesive Liquid Metal Interface-Enabled Stretchable Bioelectronics With Enhanced Radiative Cooling for Wound Management

  • Chunyan Cao
  • , Jing Gu
  • , Wanting Zhu
  • , Haoyang Li
  • , Rong Liu
  • , Wei Zhang
  • , Ruiqing Li
  • , Dawei Li
  • , Jue Ling
  • , Mingzheng Ge
  • , Xiong Wang
  • , Xi Yao
  • , Bin Fei

Research output: Journal article publicationJournal articleAcademic researchpeer-review

Abstract

Liquid metal (LM) bioelectronics are widely used in wearable devices and healthcare monitoring. However, engineering bioelectronics simultaneously exhibiting high stretchability, thermal management, and sufficient biocompatibility remains challenging. Here, a bioelectronic device containing an electrospun fiber mat embedded with LM-polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) composite and a passive radiative cooling (PRC) layer is shown to harvest the abovementioned properties. With the help of abundant dynamic hydrogen bonds, the PRC layer shows high adhesion energy of 71.2 J m−2 to the fiber mat, which provides the device with an enhanced radiative cooling performance, with a reduced Joule heat temperature of 17.1 °C under the applied voltage of 2.0 V. When stretched to 100% strain, their performance shows negligible change compared to the original state. The as-prepared devices also exhibit outstanding conductivity (1661.7 S cm−1), antimicrobial properties, high air permeability (111.4 mm s−1), and moisture permeability (4102.5 g m−2 day−1). With all these features, a skin-interfaced wound management e-patch is constructed, demonstrating high efficiency for accelerating wound healing under sunlight.

Original languageEnglish
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
DOIs
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 2025

Keywords

  • biocompatibility
  • enhanced radiative cooling
  • high interfacial binding
  • liquid metal
  • wound management

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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