Gels for Flexible Electronics and Energy Devices (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2025 | Viewed by 44
Special Issue Editors
Interests: printed electronics; flexible electrochemical energy storage; MXene; hydrogels; 3D printing
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Interests: flexible electronics; printed electronics; organic light-emitting devices; organic lasers; organic semiconductors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are grateful to all authors, reviewers, and readers for their responses to the first edition of our Special Issue on “Gels for Flexible Electronics and Energy Devices”. You can access these articles for free via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/gels/special_issues/Energy_Devices
It is our great pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Gels, “Gels for Flexible Electronics and Energy Devices (2nd Edition)”.
The field of flexible electronics has been undergoing a boom in development, showing promise to revolutionize healthcare, the Internet of Things, and everyday electronics, hallmarked by products such as electronic skins, soft robots, and human–machine interfaces. Gels, or more specifically, hydrogels, undoubtedly play a key role as materials for such applications due to their high biocompatibility, mechanical compliance, widely tunable properties, and interesting charge transport behaviors. These characteristics make gels good sensing units for flexible and stretchable pressure/strain sensors, electrolytes and separators that enable flexible electrochemical energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and batteries, and active materials in novel flexible generators that harvest energy from ambient environments, to name a few. The exponential growth in publications indicates the popularity of these lines of study; thus, this is an opportune moment to launch a Special Issue that focuses on these new applications of gels (in electronics, sensing, and energy storage and harvesting). Both research and review papers that are related to this topic are welcome. We look forward to receiving your contributions!
Prof. Dr. Yi-Zhou Zhang
Prof. Dr. Wen-Yong Lai
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- hydrogels
- flexible sensors
- strain/pressure sensors
- gel electrolytes
- flexible batteries
- flexible supercapacitors
- energy harvesting
