Advances in Solid-State Conductive Ionoelastomer Based Biosensors

Dear Colleagues,

The ion-conducting hydrogels and ionogels are highly desirable as the key components of stretchable soft electronics, ranging from artificial skins to wearable flexible biosensors and batteries, energy harvesters, soft robotics, and human–machine interaction. Compared with these state-of-the-art counterparts that suffer from inevitable evaporation, freezing and leakage issues of liquid-phase solid-state conductive ionoelastomers that are fabricated by the fusion of dry polymer and ions without a liquid phase are capable of fundamentally resolving these issues and have evolved as an ideal candidate to propel the rapid development of stretchable soft electronics. Over the past few years, extensive achievements of stretchable soft electronics, from design and manufacturing to advanced applications, have been made. However, the demand for high-quality solid-state conductive ionoelastomers equipped with excellent and robust mechanical properties, high ionic conductivity, fast self-healing ability, scalable production, and even 3D printing manufacturing is ever increasing. Therefore, this Special Issue, titled "Advances in Solid-State Conductive Ionoelastomer Based Biosensors”, focuses on the recent advances in the design principle and fabircation methods of solid-state conductive ionoelastomers, as well as their promising applications in flexible intelligent biosensros. We invite submissions of researches that help to advance the field of stretchable electronics and beyond. 

Dr. Chao Zhang
Dr. Zhiran Yi
Guest Editors

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