Shape-adaptive electronics based on liquid metal circuits printed on thermoplastic films

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Authors and Affiliations

1. State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

   Chengjie Jiang, Wenqiang Li, Qiushuo Wu, Zhi Wang, Kaiyan Wang, Bingyi Pan, Hui Zong, Xiaoqing Li, Jiaping Liu, Tianyu Li, Xian Huang & Rui Guo

2. School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

   Chengjie Jiang, Wenqiang Li, Qiushuo Wu, Zhi Wang, Kaiyan Wang, Bingyi Pan, Hui Zong, Xiaoqing Li, Jiaping Liu, Tianyu Li, Xian Huang & Rui Guo

3. School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing, China

   Bo Yuan

4. Institute of Materials Research & Center of Double Helix, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China

   Xi Tian & Hongzhang Wang

5. State Key Laboratory of Cryogenic Science and Technology, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

   Rui Guo

Contributions

C.J. designed the different shape-adaptive electronics. C.J., W.L., Z.W., K.W., B.P., H.Z., X.L., J.L., B.Y., T.L. and X.T. participated in the preparation of different shape-adaptive electronics. C.J. performed the experiments and simulations. Q.W. wrote the code for deep learning. All photographic and diagrammatic content in the figures and Supplementary Information was created and composed by C.J., R.G. and H.W. The individual featured in Supplementary Video 8 is C.J. R.G., H.W. and X.H. conceived, designed and directed the project. R.G., H.W. and C.J. wrote the paper with input from all authors.

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Correspondence to Xian Huang, Hongzhang Wang or Rui Guo.

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The authors declare no competing interests.

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Nature Electronics thanks Huanyu Cheng, Navid Hussain and Qian Zhao for their contribution to the peer review of this work.

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