Facing the urgent needs in the emerging areas of flexible electronics, we introduce ionic liquids into polymers as functional components, by taking advantages from the flexibility of polymer materials, the conductivity of ionic liquids, as well as their excellent designability. A series of electrical functional soft materials with excellent performance have been designed and prepared, including ionic liquid-included composite dielectric elastomers with high dielectric constant and high transparency, phase-changeable ionic gels with conductor-insulator transition characteristics, and poly(ionic liquid)-based ionoelastomers, etc. The research on ionic liquid-based soft materials with electrical functions is expected to promote the rapid development of flexible electronics, and will provide the possibility for the industrial technology innovation.

Ionic liquid-based functional materials

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