From Molecular Reconstruction of Mesoscopic Functional Conductive Silk Fibrous Materials to Remote Respiration Monitoring
Liyun Ma
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Textile Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620 P. R. China
College of Textile and Clothing, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830000 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorQiang Liu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Institute of Advanced Materials, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, 330013 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorRonghui Wu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Textile Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620 P. R. China
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117542 Singapore
Search for more papers by this authorZhaohui Meng
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorAniruddha Patil
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorRui Yu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorYun Yang
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorShuihong Zhu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorXuwei Fan
Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorChen Hou
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorYanran Li
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorWu Qiu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorLianfen Huang
Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorJun Wang
Key Laboratory of Textile Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorNaibo Lin
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorYizao Wan
Institute of Advanced Materials, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, 330013 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorJian Hu
Institute of Advanced Materials, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, 330013 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Xiang Yang Liu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Institute of Advanced Materials, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, 330013 P. R. China
E-mail: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorLiyun Ma
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Textile Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620 P. R. China
College of Textile and Clothing, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830000 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorQiang Liu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Institute of Advanced Materials, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, 330013 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorRonghui Wu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Textile Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620 P. R. China
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117542 Singapore
Search for more papers by this authorZhaohui Meng
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorAniruddha Patil
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorRui Yu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorYun Yang
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorShuihong Zhu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorXuwei Fan
Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorChen Hou
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorYanran Li
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorWu Qiu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorLianfen Huang
Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorJun Wang
Key Laboratory of Textile Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorNaibo Lin
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorYizao Wan
Institute of Advanced Materials, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, 330013 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorJian Hu
Institute of Advanced Materials, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, 330013 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Xiang Yang Liu
Research Institution for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, College of Physical Science and Technology, College of Materials, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005 P. R. China
Institute of Advanced Materials, East China JiaoTong University, Nanchang, 330013 P. R. China
E-mail: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
Turning insulating silk fibroin materials into conductive ones turns out to be the essential step toward achieving active silk flexible electronics. This work aims to acquire electrically conductive biocompatible fibers of regenerated Bombyx mori silk fibroin (SF) materials based on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) templated nucleation reconstruction of silk fibroin networks. The electronical conductivity of the reconstructed mesoscopic functional fibers can be tuned by the density of the incorporated CNTs. It follows that the hybrid fibers experience an abrupt increase in conductivity when exceeding the percolation threshold of CNTs >35 wt%, which leads to the highest conductivity of 638.9 S m−1 among organic-carbon-based hybrid fibers, and 8 times higher than the best available materials of the similar types. In addition, the silk-CNT mesoscopic hybrid materials achieve some new functionalities, i.e., humidity-responsive conductivity, which is attributed to the coupling of the humidity inducing cyclic contraction of SFs and the conductivity of CNTs. The silk-CNT materials, as a type of biocompatible electronic functional fibrous material for pressure and electric response humidity sensing, are further fabricated into a smart facial mask to implement respiration condition monitoring for remote diagnosis and medication.
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