Published this week in "Science Report" a study describes a wearable device manufacturing materials made of silver nanowires and polydimethylsiloxane (poly dimethylsiloxane, PDMS) is made with a high degree of scalability, solid structure and can withstand machine washing. IEDs can be used for wearable health monitoring and customized identification.

There are challenges when the conductive film is subjected to a large tensile strength, resistance may appear to rise, which makes the design and manufacture of a retractable and can be washed wearable device. Silver nanowires is considered one of the best prospects stretchable circuit materials selection, and there have been a number of applications using silver nanowires.

After deformation by using a technique called pre-embedded (pre-straining and post-embedding) technology to combine waterproof polydimethylsiloxane (dimethylsiloxane, DMS) substrate Fu and his research team developed a silver nanowires and nano-PDMS composite material that can be machine washed with other clothes together without performance degradation occurs. The researchers also developed a pre deformation after manufacturing embedded radio frequency identification technology (radio frequency identification, RFID inlay sheet) tags, you can keep stretching and machine washable sex for smart clothing and wearable devices.