Materials and structures toward soft electronics

C Wang, C Wang, Z Huang, S Xu - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Soft electronics are intensively studied as the integration of electronics with dynamic
nonplanar surfaces has become necessary. Here, a discussion of the strategies in materials …

Nature-inspired structural materials for flexible electronic devices

Y Liu, K He, G Chen, WR Leow, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Exciting advancements have been made in the field of flexible electronic devices in the last
two decades and will certainly lead to a revolution in peoples' lives in the future. However …

Mechanical properties of organic semiconductors for stretchable, highly flexible, and mechanically robust electronics

SE Root, S Savagatrup, AD Printz, D Rodriquez… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Mechanical deformability underpins many of the advantages of organic semiconductors. The
mechanical properties of these materials are, however, diverse, and the molecular …

Material innovation and mechanics design for substrates and encapsulation of flexible electronics: a review

H Li, Y Ma, Y Huang - Materials horizons, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Advances in materials and mechanics designs have led to the development of flexible
electronics, which have important applications to human healthcare due to their good …

Organic semiconductor/insulator blends for elastic field‐effect transistors and sensors

L Janasz, M Borkowski, PWM Blom… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconductors encounter limitations in their practical applicability in future
electronics due to their low environmental stability and poor charge carrier mobilities …

Intrinsically stretchable conjugated polymer semiconductors in field effect transistors

M Ashizawa, Y Zheng, H Tran, Z Bao - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Stretchable electronics have increasingly gained interest both in the academic and industrial
communities owing to its potential to enable a wide variety of applications, especially …

A design strategy for intrinsically stretchable high-performance polymer semiconductors: Incorporating conjugated rigid fused-rings with bulky side groups

D Liu, J Mun, G Chen, NJ Schuster… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Strategies to improve stretchability of polymer semiconductors, such as introducing flexible
conjugation-breakers or adding flexible blocks, usually result in degraded electrical …

Stretchable conductors for stretchable field-effect transistors and functional circuits

L Wang, Z Yi, Y Zhao, Y Liu, S Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Stretchable electronics have received intense attention due to their broad application
prospects in many areas, and can withstand large deformations and form close contact with …

Current status and opportunities of organic thin-film transistor technologies

X Guo, Y Xu, S Ogier, TN Ng, M Caironi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attributed to its advantages of super mechanical flexibility, very low-temperature processing,
and compatibility with low cost and high throughput manufacturing, organic thin-film …

Stretchable polymer semiconductors for plastic electronics

GJN Wang, A Gasperini, Z Bao - Advanced Electronic Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers have evolved significantly in the past decade and have proven to be
more than poorly conducting plastics. Instead, improved understanding has resulted in …