Li Mei, Miao Chuanqi, Zou Muhua, Guo Jiahu, Wang Hongzhen, Gao Miao, Zhang Haichang, Deng Zhifeng
National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Slag Comprehensive Utilization and Environmental Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology (SNUT), Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastic of Ministry of Education (QUST), School of Polymer Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.
Front Chem. 2023 Apr 28;11:1198067. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2023.1198067. eCollection 2023.
Flexible electronic devices play a key role in the fields of flexible batteries, electronic skins, and flexible displays, which have attracted more and more attention in the past few years. Among them, the application areas of electronic skin in new energy, artificial intelligence, and other high-tech applications are increasing. Semiconductors are an indispensable part of electronic skin components. The design of semiconductor structure not only needs to maintain good carrier mobility, but also considers extensibility and self-healing capability, which is always a challenging work. Though flexible electronic devices are important for our daily life, the research on this topic is quite rare in the past few years. In this work, the recently published work regarding to stretchable semiconductors as well as self-healing conductors are reviewed. In addition, the current shortcomings, future challenges as well as an outlook of this technology are discussed. The final goal is to outline a theoretical framework for the design of high-performance flexible electronic devices that can at the same time address their commercialization challenges.
柔性电子设备在柔性电池、电子皮肤和柔性显示器领域发挥着关键作用，在过去几年中受到了越来越多的关注。其中，电子皮肤在新能源、人工智能等高科技应用中的应用领域不断扩大。半导体是电子皮肤组件不可或缺的一部分。半导体结构的设计不仅需要保持良好的载流子迁移率，还需要考虑可扩展性和自修复能力，这一直是一项具有挑战性的工作。尽管柔性电子设备对我们的日常生活很重要，但在过去几年中关于这一主题的研究却相当少见。在这项工作中，对最近发表的关于可拉伸半导体以及自修复导体的工作进行了综述。此外，还讨论了这项技术目前的缺点、未来的挑战以及展望。最终目标是勾勒出一个高性能柔性电子设备设计的理论框架，同时应对其商业化挑战。
