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Smart fiber with overprinted patterns to function as chip-like multi-threshold logic switch circuit

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  • Xiaofei Wei

    (Chongqing University
    Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Rui Li

    (Chongqing University)

  • Siwei Xiang

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Long Qin

    (Chongqing University)

  • Xinxin Luo

    (Industrial Technology Research Institute of Chongqing University)

  • Jie Xue

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Xing Fan

    (Chongqing University)

Abstract

There is a growing demand for precise health management, capable of differentially caring every inch of skin as an on-body network. For which, each network node executes not only multi-physiological sensing, but also in-situ logic computing to save cloud computing power for massive data analysis. Herein, we present a smart fiber with multilayers of overprinted patterns, composed of many small units with 0.3 mm long to function as a one-dimension (1D) array of chip-like multi-threshold logic-switch circuit. Via soft contact of curved surfaces between fiber and ink-droplet, an overprinting method is developed for stacking different layers of patterns with a line width of 75 μm in a staggered way, enabling batch production of circuit units along one long fiber. A smart fiber with high density of >3000 circuit units per meter can be woven with fiber-type sensors to construct a textile-type body-covering network, where each node serves as a computing terminal.

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  • Xiaofei Wei & Rui Li & Siwei Xiang & Long Qin & Xinxin Luo & Jie Xue & Xing Fan, 2025. "Smart fiber with overprinted patterns to function as chip-like multi-threshold logic switch circuit," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:16:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-025-62648-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62648-3
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