Highly conductive and stretchable polymer conductors fabricated from conductive fillers and stretchable polymers are urgently needed in flexible electronics, implants, soft robotics, However, polymer conductors encounter the conductivity-stretchability dilemma, in which high-load fillers needed for high conductivity always result in the stiffness of materials. Herein, we propose a new design of highly conductive and stretchable polymer conductors with low-load nanoparticles (NPs). The design is achieved by the self-assembly of surface-modified NPs to efficiently form robust conductive pathways. We employ computer simulations to elucidate the self-assembly of the NPs in the polymer matrices under equilibrium and tensile states. The conductive pathways retain 100% percolation probability even though the loading of the NPs is lowered to ∼2% volume. When the tensile strain reaches 400%, the percolation probability of the ∼2% NP system is still greater than 25%. The theoretical prediction suggests a way for advancing flexible conductive materials.
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