Nanomaterials for Flexible and Stretchable Devices: Synthesis, Processes, and Applications
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2016) | Viewed by 101983
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent demands regarding wearable, light-weight portable devices stressed the importance of developing new materials for bendable, rollable, and even stretchable electronics on nonrigid substrates, and nanomaterials have played a significant role in the improvement of these flexible/stretchable electronics in recent years. The wide variety of nanomaterials has proven to exhibit significant flexibility/stretchability at both the micro- and macroscale, while much attention also has been focused on novel techniques developed for nanomaterial processing to meet the mild processing conditions and enable facile production in relatively simple procedures. The application of these nanomaterials on flexible/stretchable devices is currently an active and vibrant research area that has high potential in the display, sensors, energy storage, conversion, and harvesting fields.
We invite authors to contribute original research articles and review articles covering current progress on the preparation and the usage of nanomaterials for flexible and stretchable devices. The current Special Issue will take account of a broad range of subjects from nanomaterial synthesis to relevant technologies and the resultant nanomaterial-based flexible and stretchable devices. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials
- Design and preparation of novel nanotextured/nanostructured surfaces
- Flexible/stretchable percolation network composed of low-dimensional nanomaterials
- Solution processes and other lithography-free techniques for nanomaterial processing
- Nanomaterial-based printing techniques including 3D printing
- Other environmentally friendly processes compatible to substrates
- Nanomaterial-based flexible/stretchable electronics including display, sensor, and energy devices
- Other applications related to nanomaterials for devices
- Post-processing to enhance mechanical stability of flexible/stretchable devices
Dr. Ming-Tsang Lee
Prof. Dr. Te-Hua Fang
Prof. Dr. Chien-Hung Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanomaterial for display, sensor, and energy devices
- flexible/stretchable devices
- nanotextured/nanostructured surfaces
- nanomaterials for micro/nano manufacturing
- nanomaterials for 3D printing
- lithography-free techniques
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