Flexible electronics from intrinsically soft materials
Zhe Zhou,
Heshan Zhang,
Juqing Liu,
Wei Huang
Affiliations
Zhe Zhou
Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China.
Heshan Zhang
Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China.
Juqing Liu
Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China.; Corresponding authors.
Wei Huang
Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211816, China.; Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics (FSCFE), MIIT Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLoFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.; Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China; Corresponding authors.
Flexible electronics is an interdisciplinary research field. By employing the intrinsically soft materials, the resulting devices feature outstanding mechanical flexibility and conformability, and expected lightweight configuration, functional reconfigurability, large-area compatibility. Here we explore the current status, including materials, fabrication and applications, of flexible electronics from intrinsically soft materials. The future applications and challenges of this pervading technology are also considered.
