Flexible Electronics: Fabrication and Ubiquitous Integration
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A:Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2018) | Viewed by 62615
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wearable devices; self-powered flexible sensors; soft robotics
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Dear Colleagues,
Flexible Electronics platforms are increasingly used in the fields of sensors, displays, and energy conversion with the ultimate goal of facilitating their ubiquitous integration in our daily lives. Some of the key advantages associated with flexible electronic platforms are: bendability, lightweight, elastic, conformally shaped, nonbreakable, roll-to-roll manufacturable, and large-area. To realize their full potential, however, it is necessary to develop new methods for the fabrication of multifunctional flexible electronics at a reduced cost and with an increased resistance to mechanical fatigue. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase short communications, research papers, and review articles that focus on novel methodological development for the fabrication, and integration of flexible electronics in healthcare, environmental monitoring, displays and human-machine interactivity, robotics, communication and wireless networks, and energy conversion, management, and storage.
Dr. Ramses V. Martinez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- flexible electronics
- stretchable electronics
- printable electronics
- epidermal electronics
- robotic skin
- conformable sensors
- low-cost flexible devices
- flexible displays
- flexible energy storage
- flexible energy conversion
- flexible electronic textiles
- wearable flexible devices
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