Flexible Ferroelectric Electronic Materials and Devices: Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026 | Viewed by 11
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Flexible electronic materials and devices are emerging as a transformative technology enabling the next generation of wearable systems, soft robotics, and human–machine interfaces. Among these, ferroelectric materials offer unique opportunities due to their intrinsic properties such as spontaneous polarization, nonvolatile memory effect, high piezoelectric response, and tunable dielectric behavior. These characteristics provide a powerful platform for designing multifunctional devices that are not only flexible but also capable of sensing, energy harvesting, memory storage, and actuation.
However, integrating ferroelectric materials into flexible architecture presents critical challenges: mechanical robustness under repeated bending and stretching, low-temperature and low-cost fabrication, reliable large-area processability, and long-term device stability. Addressing these issues will be essential for realizing practical applications such as self-powered wearable sensors, energy-efficient flexible memory, bio-integrated healthcare systems, and adaptive electronics for IoT environments.
This Special Issue will provide a forum to discuss the opportunities and challenges in flexible ferroelectric electronic materials and devices. We welcome contributions covering topics from material synthesis, device design, and novel characterization techniques to system-level applications. Both original research papers and state-of-the-art reviews are highly encouraged.
Dr. Mingyu Sang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- flexible electronic materials
- ferroelectric thin films
- ferroelectric polymers
- dielectric and piezoelectric properties
- domain dynamics in ferroelectrics
- low-temperature processed devices
- solution-processable ferroelectrics
- mechanical flexibility and reliability of flexible electronics
- interface engineering in ferroelectric devices
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