Flexible
textile displays can be revolutionary for information
transmission at any place and any time. Typically, textile displays
are fabricated by traditional
rigid electronics that sacrifice mechanical flexibility of devices
or by flexible electronics that do not have an appropriate choice
to arbitrarily control single pixels. This work reports on an electroluminescent
fabric woven by ultrastretchable fibers (electroluminescent fibers
up to 400% stretch, electrode fibers up to 250% stretch), which can
exhibit the pixel-based arbitrarily controllable pattern display by
a mobile phone application. To realize ultrastretchability, we made
these fibers by encapsulating liquid metals on a polyurethane core
(high elasticity). To realize arbitrary control, the design shows
a plain-woven structure comprising ZnS-based electroluminescent fibers
and perpendicular electrode fibers. The cross-points between the electroluminescent
fiber and the electrode fiber form pixels that can be switched on
or off independently and can further form the pixel-based arbitrarily
controllable pattern display. By doping with different elements, ZnS-based
electroluminescent fibers can emit green, blue, or yellow lights.
Meanwhile, the fabrication of these fibers employs dip-coating, a
scalable manufacturing method without high temperature or vacuum atmosphere.
These fabrics show great potential in a wide range of applications
such as wearable electronic devices, healthcare, and fashion design.