A temperature-adaptive component-dynamic-coordinated strategy for high-performance elastic conductive fibers

作者：Yue Zhang, Zechang Ming, Zijie Zhou, Xiaojie Wei, Jingjing Huang, Yufan Zhang, Weikang Li, Liming Zhu, Shuang Wang, Mengjie Wu, Zeren Lu, Xinran Zhou, Jiaqing Xiong · 发表于：Nature Communications · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1038/s41467-025-62140-y · 被引用次数：21 · 研究领域：Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials、Advanced Materials and Mechanics、Conducting polymers and applications

Abstract Temperature-adaptive elastic conductive fibers (ECFs) are crucial for seamlessly integrating electronic textiles, promoting the development of wearables, soft robotics, and high/low-temperature electronics. Realizing ECFs with balanced elasticity, conductivity, and temperature adaptivity remains challenging due to the difficulty of coupling the mechano-electrical-thermal properties at a microscale fiber. We design a wet-spun ECF consisting of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), silver flakes (AgFKs) and liquid metal microspheres (LMMSs) with regularly arranged filler architecture, revealing a cold/thermal stretching activated tricomponent-dynamic-coordination mechanism for autonomously-enhanced electrical conductivity (from ~1070 S cm −1 at 25 °C to 1160 S cm −1 at −30 °C and 3020 S cm −1 at 180 °C) and improved electrical stability to sustain 1000 stretching cycles (60% strain at 80 °C). The fiber exhibits scalability and favorable knittability, demonstrating e-textiles such as biomedical electrodes, high/low-temperature near-field communication gloves, and intelligent firefighting suits. The autonomous mechano-thermo-electrical coupling strategy can inspire high-performance and environment-adaptive ECFs for extreme applications.