Stretchable electronics

Transfer Printing Techniques and Inorganic Single-Crystalline Materials for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics... 

Sun, Y. Choi, W.-M. Jiang, H. Huang, Y. Y. Rogers, J. A. 2006. Controlled buckling of semiconductor nanoribbons for stretchable electronics. Nature Nano-technol. 1 201-207. 

Khang DY, Rogers JA, Lee HH (2009) Mechanical buckling mechanics, metrology, and stretchable electronics. Adv Funct Mater 19 1526-1536... 

Rogersa JA, Someya T, Huang YG (2010) Materials and mechanics for stretchable electronics. Science 327 1603-1607... 

Savagatrup, S., Printz, A.D., O connor, T.F., Zaretski, A.V, Lipomi, D.J., 2014b. Molecularly stretchable electronics. Chem. Mater. 26,3028-3041. 

Carbon nanomaterials themselves also have good electrocatalytic activities, thus their composites with insulating polymers could also be used as counter electrodes of DSSCs. For instance, the CNT/epoxy composite films with CNTs being aligned to be perpendicular and parallel to the film surface have been investigated. However, the performances were lower than bare CNTs. They can also be composited with elastic polymers to be used for stretchable electronic devices. 

Stretchability has been perceived as a useful characteristic of next-generation electronics. Unlike conventional devices, stretchable electronics can adapt arbitrary and movable surfaces, thus extending their applications in smart-phones and wearable electronic textiles (Kim et al, 2010 Yu et al., 2011a). The largest challenge of stretchable PLECs resides in transparent electrode that requires to be highly conductive and stretchable. ITO is a... 

Jin, H. Y, L. M. Zhou, C. L. Mak, H. T. Huang, W. M. Tang, and H. L. W. Chan. 2015. High-performance fiber-shaped supercapacitors using carbon fiber thread (CFT) polyanilne and functionalized CRT electrodes for wearable/stretchable electronics. Nano Energy 11 662-670. 

Flexible and stretchable electronics for wearables and health care devices. 

Kim DH, Lu N, Huang Y, Rogers JA. Materials for stretchable electronics in bioinspired and biointegrated devices. MRS Bull 2012 37 226-35. 

Biological and Bio-inspired Heterogeneous Composites From Resilient Palm Trees to Stretchable Electronics... 

Stretchable Electronics, ed. T. Someya, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2013. Biomolecular Information Processing - From Logic Systems to Smart Sensors and Actuators, ed. E. Katz, Wilq -VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2012. 

Figure 6.9 A soft, stretchable electronic system that integrates strain-isolated device components and a free-floating interconnect network in a thin elastomeric microfluidic enclosure, (a) Exploded-view schematic illustration of the key components (left). Mechanical strain isolation is a function of the microfluidic system after enclosure and microinjection (right), (b) A demonstration system undergoing extensive stretch and twist, (c) A forearm-attached device in undeformed state (left) and undergoing compression and twist (right).

Gonzalez, M., Axisa, F., Bulcke, M.V., Brosteaux, D., Vandevelde, B., Vanfleteren, J., 2008. Design of metal interconnects for stretchable electronic circuits. Microelectron. Reliab. 48 (6), 825-832. 

Ahn J-H, Je JH (2012) Stretchable electronics materials, architectures and integrations. J Phys D Appl Phys 45 103001... 

Keywords Antennas, elastomers, galinstan, integrated circuits (ICs), liquid alloy, microfluidics, planar inverted cone antenna (PICA), polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), radiofrequency (RF), sensors, silicones, stretchable electronics, ultrawideband (UWB), voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs)... 

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