Flexible quantum dot light-emitting diodes for next-generation displays

10.1038/s41528-018-0023-3

2018-04-05

In the future electronics, all device components will be connected wirelessly to displays that serve as information input and/or output ports. There is a growing demand of flexible and wearable displays, therefore, for information input/output of the next-gen...

Energy harvesting textiles for a rainy day: woven piezoelectrics based on melt-spun PVDF microfibres with a conducting core

10.1038/s41528-018-0022-4

2018-03-22

Recent advances in ubiquitous low-power electronics call for the development of light-weight and flexible energy sources. The textile format is highly attractive for unobtrusive harvesting of energy from e.g., biomechanical movements. Here, we report the manu...

Ultra-thin chips for high-performance flexible electronics

10.1038/s41528-018-0021-5

2018-03-14

Flexible electronics has significantly advanced over the last few years, as devices and circuits from nanoscale structures to printed thin films have started to appear. Simultaneously, the demand for high-performance electronics has also increased because fle...

Large-scale roll-to-roll printed, flexible and stable organic bulk heterojunction photodetector

10.1038/s41528-017-0020-y

2018-03-01

A flexible and stable photodetector shows great potential applications in intelligent wearable devices, health monitoring, and biological sensing. The high-output fabrication of flexible and stable photodetector via the large-scale printing process would acce...

Polymer nanofibre composite nonwovens with metal-like electrical conductivity

10.1038/s41528-017-0018-5

2018-02-14

Bendable and breathable polymer nanofibre nonwovens with metal-like electrical conductivity are required for lightweight electrodes and electric shielding design with applications in batteries, functional textiles, sensors, cars, aerospace, constructions, mob...

Low-cost, μm-thick, tape-free electronic tattoo sensors with minimized motion and sweat artifacts

10.1038/s41528-017-0019-4

2018-02-13

Electronic tattoos (e-tattoos), also known as epidermal electronics, are ultra-thin and ultra-soft noninvasive but skin-conformable devices with capabilities including physiological sensing and transdermal stimulation and therapeutics. The fabrication of e-ta...

Asymmetric photocurrent extraction in semitransparent laminated flexible organic solar cells

10.1038/s41528-017-0017-6

2018-02-05

Scalable production methods and low-cost materials with low embodied energy are key to success for organic solar cells. PEDOT(PSS) electrodes meet these criteria and allow for low-cost and all solution-processed solar cells. However, such devices are prone to...

Room-temperature processing of silver submicron fiber mesh for flexible electronics

10.1038/s41528-017-0016-7

2018-01-25

Ultrathin, patterned, conducting metallic fibers have been extensively studied as building blocks in flexible electronics. However, their scalable processing and attainment of patterns at room temperature is challenging. In this paper, we report on the patter...

Curvy surface conformal ultra-thin transfer printed Si optoelectronic penetrating microprobe arrays

10.1038/s41528-017-0015-8

2018-01-18

Penetrating neural probe arrays are powerful bio-integrated devices for studying basic neuroscience and applied neurophysiology, underlying neurological disorders, and understanding and regulating animal and human behavior. This paper presents a penetrating m...

Enhanced power conversion efficiency in iridium complex-based terpolymers for polymer solar cells

10.1038/s41528-017-0014-9

2018-01-11

By introducing various low concentrations of Iridium complexes to the famous donor polymer of PTB7-Th backbone, new heavy metal containing terpolymers have been demonstrated. When blended with PC71BM, an obvious increase of power conversion efficiency (PCE) i...