{"id":226600,"date":"2025-12-06T00:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/iron-on-electronic-patches-enable-easy-integration-of-circuits-into-fabrics"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:24:30","slug":"iron-on-electronic-patches-enable-easy-integration-of-circuits-into-fabrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/iron-on-electronic-patches-enable-easy-integration-of-circuits-into-fabrics","title":{"rendered":"Iron-on electronic patches enable easy integration of circuits into fabrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iron-on-electronic-patches-enable-easy-integration-of-circuits-into-fabrics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iron-on patches can repair clothing or add personal flair to backpacks and hats. And now they could power wearable tech, too. Researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsami.5c13752\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> in <i>ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces<\/i> have combined liquid metal and a heat-activated adhesive to create an electrically conductive patch that bonds to fabric when heated with a hot iron. In demonstrations, circuits ironed onto a square of fabric lit up LEDs and attached an iron-on microphone to a button-up shirt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cE-textiles and wearable electronics can enable diverse applications from health care and environmental monitoring to robotics and human-machine interfaces. Our work advances this exciting area by creating iron-on soft electronics that can be rapidly and robustly integrated into a wide range of fabrics,\u201d says Michael D. Bartlett, a researcher at Virginia Tech and corresponding author on the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron-on patches can repair clothing or add personal flair to backpacks and hats. And now they could power wearable tech, too. Researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces have combined liquid metal and a heat-activated adhesive to create an electrically conductive patch that bonds to fabric when heated with a hot iron. In demonstrations, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1495,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-health","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}