Reconfigurable stretchable self-healing electronic circuits (IMAGE)
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By positioning stretchable self-healing transistors and carbon nanotube electrodes at predefined locations on a self-healing polymer substrate, the components autonomously assemble through self-healing interactions to form stretchable electronic circuits.
Using two self-healing transistors and a load resistor, NAND and NOR logic gates were assembled, and their logic states were reliably maintained under 20% tensile strain.
Moreover, the preassembled self-healing electronic circuits can be cut and reassembled, enabling circuit reconfiguration.
Specifically, when a transistor in the NOR gate is severed, repositioned, and reassembled, the circuit can be successfully reconfigured into a NAND gate.
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Nature Electronics, Professor Donghee Son and Jin-Hong Park
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