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Materials for devices are materials employed in devices because of their particular properties, such as electrical, thermal, magnetic, mechanical, ferroelectric or piezoelectric properties. Examples of materials for devices are polymers, oxides, semiconductors and liquid crystals.
Silver nanowires self-assembled on microscale elastomer pores, through in situ phase separation, yield highly elastic porous nanocomposite conductors with ultralow percolation threshold and high stretchability. This material is highly conductive, strain-insensitive and fatigue-tolerant, and holds promise for strain-resilient, wireless, battery-free bioelectronics.
By manipulating the glass transition of the electrolyte, nanometre-resolution electrochemical ion implantation doping can be achieved in various polymeric semiconductors.
Buildings account for a large proportion of the global energy consumption. Here the electrochromic smart window realizes year-round energy savings by managing visible, near-infrared and mid-infrared light.
Lead toxification in society is a public health crisis. The exposure to lead poisoning gives rise to a multitude of health issues. In this work, a chip-scale photonic platform that enables the highly quantitative detection of lead is demonstrated.
Providing a suitable multi-electrode array (MEA) for free-floating neural organoids is a great challenge. Here, authors present a mesh soft stretchable MEA for recording neural signals in human hippocampal organoids derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.
Inspired by fireflies, a bimodal information indication system using a photochemical afterglow material within a photonic crystal matrix is developed to display both static and changing information, such as sample type and degree of degradation.
Silver nanowires self-assembled on microscale elastomer pores, through in situ phase separation, yield highly elastic porous nanocomposite conductors with ultralow percolation threshold and high stretchability. This material is highly conductive, strain-insensitive and fatigue-tolerant, and holds promise for strain-resilient, wireless, battery-free bioelectronics.
Developing circuits for flexible and stretchable devices demands not only high performance but also reliable and predictable components, such as organic thin-film transistors. High-throughput characterization is required to build reliable structure–property relationships, which are critical for the commercialization of new materials.
By manipulating the glass transition of the electrolyte, nanometre-resolution electrochemical ion implantation doping can be achieved in various polymeric semiconductors.
A synthesis method for large-scale conjugated polymers as well as studies under operational conditions show that research on organic mixed ionic–electronic conductors continues to progress.