Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Optimizing transcriptome-based synthetic lethality predictions to improve targeted therapy / immunotherapy treatment prioritization in non-metastatic breast cancer: BC-SELECT.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology·2026

Same author

Exercise-stimulated primary cilia on preosteoclasts promote periosteal-bone formation.

Experimental & molecular medicine·2026

Same author

Laser-generated focused ultrasound for thrombus characterization and fragmentation: ex vivo feasibility study.

Scientific reports·2026

Same author

Intratumoral Injectable Click-Crosslinked Hyaluronic Acid Depot for Sustained Gemcitabine Delivery.

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine·2026

Same author

Chromatix: a differentiable, GPU-accelerated wave-optics library.

Nature methods·2026

Same author

Assessing recent anthropogenic carbon dioxide and acidification in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

Marine environmental research·2026

Same journal

High-turnover copper-catalyzed amination of aryl bromides: exploring catalyst and ligand degradation pathways.

RSC advances·2026

Same journal

Sb-based metal oxide and sulfide anode materials for alkali-ion batteries.

RSC advances·2026

Same journal

Directed evolution of a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase for improved perillyl alcohol biosynthesis <i>via</i> a tailored genetically encoded biosensor.

RSC advances·2026

Same journal

Superspin-glass dynamics and magnetic memory in ZnFe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> nanoparticles synthesized <i>via</i> a green egg-white-assisted route.

RSC advances·2026

Same journal

Porous and luminescent Dy-doped Co-BTC MOFs for label-free detection of tetracycline and vanadium traces in water.

RSC advances·2026

Same journal

An optimized green simultaneous HPLC analysis of dissolution rate monitoring for valsartan and sacubitril in tablet medications.

RSC advances·2026

See all related articles

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Sep 25, 2025

A Simple and Scalable Fabrication Method for Organic Electronic Devices on Textiles

A Simple and Scalable Fabrication Method for Organic Electronic Devices on Textiles

Published on: March 13, 2017

Mechanically and electrically durable, stretchable electronic textiles for robust wearable electronics.

Sun Hong Kim¹, Yewon Kim², Heewon Choi²

¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University Seoul 08826 Republic of Korea jkwak@snu.ac.kr.

|April 28, 2022

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

This study introduces mechanically and electrically durable electronic textiles (MED-ET) using self-healing inks and a kirigami design. These robust textiles maintain conductivity under strain, enabling advanced wearable electronics like stretchable Micro-LEDs and EMG monitoring.

More Related Videos

Conformable Wearable Electrodes: From Fabrication to Electrophysiological Assessment

Conformable Wearable Electrodes: From Fabrication to Electrophysiological Assessment

Published on: July 22, 2022

Scalable Solution-processed Fabrication Strategy for High-performance, Flexible, Transparent Electrodes with Embedded Metal Mesh

Scalable Solution-processed Fabrication Strategy for High-performance, Flexible, Transparent Electrodes with Embedded Metal Mesh

Published on: June 23, 2017

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Sep 25, 2025

A Simple and Scalable Fabrication Method for Organic Electronic Devices on Textiles

A Simple and Scalable Fabrication Method for Organic Electronic Devices on Textiles

Published on: March 13, 2017

Conformable Wearable Electrodes: From Fabrication to Electrophysiological Assessment

Conformable Wearable Electrodes: From Fabrication to Electrophysiological Assessment

Published on: July 22, 2022

Scalable Solution-processed Fabrication Strategy for High-performance, Flexible, Transparent Electrodes with Embedded Metal Mesh

Scalable Solution-processed Fabrication Strategy for High-performance, Flexible, Transparent Electrodes with Embedded Metal Mesh

Published on: June 23, 2017

Area of Science:

Materials Science
Textile Engineering
Wearable Electronics

Background:

Current textile electronics lack robustness against repetitive deformation.
Individual fibers need enhanced electrical and mechanical durability for reliable performance.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a mechanically and electrically durable, stretchable electronic textile (MED-ET).
To enhance the fatigue resistance and reliability of electronic textiles under mechanical stress.

Main Methods:

Precisely controlled diffusion of tough self-healing stretchable inks into fibers.
Adoption of a kirigami-inspired structural design.
Investigation of electrical recovery phenomena in conductive pathways.

Main Results:

MED-ET exhibits stable conductive pathways and electrical recovery due to self-healing ink and Ag flake rearrangement.
Kirigami design enables high stretchability (300% tensile strain) by efficiently dissipating stress.
Demonstrated applications include stretchable Micro-LEDs, EMG monitoring, and fabric thermoelectric devices (F-TEG).

Conclusions:

The developed MED-ET offers exceptional mechanical and electrical durability for demanding wearable applications.
The combination of self-healing inks and kirigami design overcomes limitations of current electronic textiles.
This innovation paves the way for next-generation, resilient smart textiles.