Microsphere‐Templated Conductive Syntactic Foams for Recyclable and Additively Manufactured Soft Electronics
Gayaneh Petrossian, Yassine Diouri, Bolan Xu, Sara Ebrahimi, Atharva Pande, Floriane Miquet‐Westphal, Hang Xu, Fabio Cicoira · 2026
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Description
Gayaneh Petrossian and co-workers introduce in 2026 soft conductive foams built from coated microspheres that can be printed and recycled. Wearable electronics need materials that bend like tissue, carry current, and avoid the landfill. Ordinary conductive foams rarely offer all three traits at once.
Tiny polymer spheres coated with a conductive polymer set the foam's pores and stiffness. The foams stayed as soft as body tissue while keeping steady conductivity across wide ranges of air content. Heat could reshape them, and dissolving the matrix freed the coated spheres for reuse. Worn as electrodes, the foams cleanly picked up heart, muscle, and even in-ear brain signals, including clear shifts in brain rhythm bands.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gayaneh Petrossian, Yassine Diouri, Bolan Xu, Sara Ebrahimi, Atharva Pande, Floriane Miquet‐Westphal, Hang Xu, Fabio Cicoira |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67334 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |