Recent Advances in Designing Hydrogels for Flexible Electronics and Devices

Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to introduce a Special Issue, titled “Recent Advances in Designing Hydrogels for Flexible Electronics and Devices”. Soft, flexible/stretchable electronic devices have attracted extensive attention owing to their tremendous potential relating to the Internet of Things, human–machine interfaces, and even wearable/implantable healthcare applications. Representative approaches to the realization of the soft, flexible, bio-integrated electronics on a more practical level are divided into several methods: i) enabling the brittle inorganic conducting/insulating/semiconducting materials to be flexible and even stretchable using strategies for a rigid-island active layer connected to wavy interconnects and a neutral mechanical plane, ii) integrating commercially available chips such as central processing units, memory modules, batteries, and wireless communication parts with stretchable conductors supported on elastic substrates, and iii) making functional materials intrinsically stretchable and autonomously self-healable using nano-/micro-hydrogels/elastomers in dynamically crosslinked polymer matrixes. In this Special Issue, we will cover various approaches to the synthesis of soft functional materials for flexible/stretchable electronic devices. We invite researchers who are working on deformable electronics, ranging from stretchable material synthesis and its device fabrication, to process and system integration, to submit their high-quality manuscript for publication in this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Donghee Son
Guest Editor

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