title: Robust and Soft Elastomeric Electronics Tolerant to Our Daily Lives.
abstract: Clothes represent a unique textile, as they simultaneously provide robustness against our daily activities and comfort (i.e., softness). For electronic devices to be fully integrated into clothes, the devices themselves must be as robust and soft as the clothes themselves. However, to date, no electronic device has ever possessed these properties, because all contain components fabricated from brittle materials, such as metals. Here, we demonstrate robust and soft elastomeric devices where every component possesses elastomeric characteristics with two types of single-walled carbon nanotubes added to provide the necessary electronic properties. Our elastomeric field effect transistors could tolerate every punishment our clothes experience, such as being stretched (elasticity: ∼ 110%), bent, compressed (>4.0 MPa, by a car and heels), impacted (>6.26 kg m/s, by a hammer), and laundered. Our electronic device provides a novel design principle for electronics and wide range applications even in research fields where devices cannot be used.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.|Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) , Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan.
authors.forename: Atsuko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sekiguchi
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.|Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) , Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan.
authors.forename: Fumiaki
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kuwahara
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
authors.forename: Shunsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.|Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) , Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan.
authors.forename: Don N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Futaba
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.|Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) , Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan.
authors.forename: Takeo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) , Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.|Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) , Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan.
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hata
mesh_terms: D003020:Clothing; D004548:Elasticity; D020724:Elastomers; D004581:Electronics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D013784:Textiles / Q000032:analysis; D014173:Transistors, Electronic
chemical_list: D020724:Elastomers; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D011108:Polymers; C036925:elastomeric polymer
keywords: conductive rubber; field effect transistor; flexible electronics; single-walled carbon nanotube; wearable electronics