Design and applications of stretchable and self-healable conductors for soft electronics

Illustration and potential applications of stretchable and self-healable conductors. Figures sequence is from top and clockwise. Illustrated figure of an electronic skin. Reproduced with permission [15]. Copyright 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Photograph of a stretchable strain sensor. Reproduced with permission [17]. Copyright 2011, Nature Publishing Group. Photograph of an energy harvesting device. Reproduced with permission [18]. Copyright 2014, American Chemical Society. Photograph (left) of a health monitoring wearable sensor array. Reproduced with permission [21]. Copyright 2016, Nature Publishing Group. Photograph (right) of a stretchable ultrasonic device for blood pressure waveform monitoring. Reproduced with permission [22]. Copyright 2018, Nature Publishing Group. Illustrated figure of a highly stretchable and transparent ionic touch panel. Reproduced with permission [23]. Copyright 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Photograph of a stretchable transistor array on fingertip [19]. Reproduced with permission. Copyright 2018, Macmillan Publishers Limited. Photograph of healed zinc ion battery. Reproduced with permission [24]. Copyright 2019, Wiley–VCH. Photograph of an electronic display. Reproduced with permission [20]. Copyright 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Scienc