Elastic Fibers/Fabrics for Wearables and Bioelectronics

Wearables and bioelectronics rely on breathable interface devices with bioaffinity, biocompatibility, and smart functionality for interactions between beings and things and the surrounding environment. Elastic fibers/fabrics with mechanical adaptivity to various deformations and complex substrates, are promising to act as fillers, carriers, substrates, dressings, and scaffolds in the construction of biointerfaces for the human body, skins, organs, and plants, realizing functions such as energy exchange, sensing, perception, augmented virtuality, health monitoring, disease diagnosis, and intervention therapy. This review summarizes and highlights the latest breakthroughs of elastic fibers/fabrics for wearables and bioelectronics, aiming to offer insights into elasticity mechanisms, production methods, and electrical components integration strategies with fibers/fabrics, presenting a profile of elastic fibers/fabrics for energy management, sensors, e‐skins, thermal management, personal protection, wound healing, biosensing, and drug delivery. The trans‐disciplinary application of elastic fibers/fabrics from wearables to biomedicine provides important inspiration for technology transplantation and function integration to adapt different application systems. As a discussion platform, here the main challenges and possible solutions in the field are proposed, hopefully can provide guidance for promoting the development of elastic e‐textiles in consideration of the trade‐off between mechanical/electrical performance, industrial‐scale production, diverse environmental adaptivity, and multiscenario on‐spot applications.

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   A chameleon-inspired stretchable electronic skin with interactive colour changing controlled by tactile sensing · 2015

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   The wound inflammatory response exacerbates growth of pre‐neoplastic cells and progression to cancer · 2015

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   Wearable red–green–blue quantum dot light-emitting diode array using high-resolution intaglio transfer printing · 2015

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   Printable elastic conductors with a high conductivity for electronic textile applications · 2015

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   Sustainably powering wearable electronics solely by biomechanical energy · 2016

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   Warming up human body by nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile · 2017

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   Skin-inspired highly stretchable and conformable matrix networks for multifunctional sensing · 2018

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   A supramolecular biomimetic skin combining a wide spectrum of mechanical properties and multiple sensory capabilities · 2018

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   Skin Cell Heterogeneity in Development, Wound Healing, and Cancer · 2018

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    Skin-touch-actuated textile-based triboelectric nanogenerator with black phosphorus for durable biomechanical energy harvesting · 2018

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    A bionic stretchable nanogenerator for underwater sensing and energy harvesting · 2019

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    Stretchable fabric generates electric power from woven thermoelectric fibers · 2020

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    Micro‐Gel Ensembles for Accelerated Healing of Chronic Wound via pH Regulation · 2022

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