Sijie Zheng

Mar 7, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Xiaowei Wang |Sijie Zheng |Jiaofeng Xiong |Ziyang Liu

The resistance of gels and elastomers increases significantly with tensile strain, which reduces conductive stability and restricts their use in stable and reliable electronics. Here, highly conductive tough hydrogels composed of silver nanowires (AgNWs), liquid metal (LM), and poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) were fabricated.

Oct 10, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Lingling Li |Xiaowei Wang |Sijie Zheng |Shuna Gao

Solvent-free elastomers, unlike gels, do not suffer from solvent evaporation and leakage in practical applications. However, it is challenging to realize the preparation of high-toughness (with both high stress and strain) ionic elastomers. Herein, high-toughness linear poly(ionic liquid) (PIL) elastomers were constructed via supramolecular ionic networks formed by the polymerization of halometallate ionic liquid (IL) monomers, without any chemical crosslinking.