Liquid Metals and Disulfides: Interactive Metal‐Polymer Hybrids for Flexible and Self‐Healable Conductor

• DOI: 10.1002/admt.202000852
• Publication Date: 2021-02-03T20:53:22Z
• Authors: Yumeng Xin; Yang Lou; Huaizhi Liu; Dongfang Wu; Jiuyang Zhang
• Keywords: Liquid metal

Abstract Growing interests have been received in metal‐polymer hybrid composites for their combined features of metals and polymer. However, the detrimental incompatibility between inorganic organic polymer matrix makes it challenging to prepare homogenous advanced applications. This work reports using disulfides, as interactive binding bonds, interact with liquid (LMs) fabricating metal‐disulfide (LMDS) composites. The interaction disulfides lead uniform dispersion LM droplets strengthen whole network improved mechanical performance. Interestingly, this discovers that could act efficient initiator promote ring‐opening polymerization obtain In addition, LMDS exhibit excellent self‐healing ability ascribing dynamic LM‐disulfide disulfide metathesis. phenomenal electrical conductivity feature enable stretchable conductors control circuits.