A highly stretchable dielectric elastomer based on core–shell structured soft polymer-coated liquid-metal nanofillers

Abstract

Elastomer, poly(n-butyl methacrylate), coated liquid metal (LM) nanodroplets (EGaIn@PBMA) were successfully fabricated via a facile in situ free radical polymerization method. The as-prepared soft nanoparticles can be directly hot-pressed into nanocomposites which not only exhibited ultra-high stretching flexibility (>400%) but also excellent dielectric properties with remarkably suppressed dielectric loss, showing great promise in the flexible energy-storage field.