Stretchable conductors are necessary to realize soft and rubbery electronics. A stretchable fine fiber with high conductivity was fabricated by a injection forming. The fiber is made of silicone series conductive adhesive containing Ag flake fillers. The fiber has uniform diameter without any substrate and has very long length by the injection forming method. The diameters can be controlled by changing the bore diameter of the injection needle. Furthermore, the fine fiber, 230 μm in diameter, maintains excellent conductivity under cyclic tensile stress. The conductivity is approximately 470 S/cm without tensile stress and maintains over 90 S/cm under cyclic tensile test which is stretched up to 10% strain. The result exhibits a great potential of the conductive fine fiber as a stretchable conductor.
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