A review on self-healing polymers for soft robotics

S Terryn, J Langenbach, E Roels, J Brancart… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The intrinsic compliance of soft robots provides safety, a natural adaptation to its
environment, allows to absorb shocks, and protects them against mechanical impacts …

Processing of self‐healing polymers for soft robotics

E Roels, S Terryn, F Iida, AW Bosman… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots are, due to their softness, inherently safe and adapt well to unstructured
environments. However, they are prone to various damage types. Self‐healing polymers …

Impact of planar and vertical organic field‐effect transistors on flexible electronics

A Nawaz, L Merces, LMM Ferro, P Sonar… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of flexible and conformable devices, whose performance can be
maintained while being continuously deformed, provides a significant step toward the …

Stretchable electronics: functional materials, fabrication strategies and applications

W Wu - Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The primary developing trends in flexible and stretchable electronics involve the innovation
of material synthesis, mechanical design, and fabrication strategies that employ soft …

Organic bioelectronics: from functional materials to next‐generation devices and power sources

D Ohayon, S Inal - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers (CPs) possess a unique set of features setting them apart from other
materials. These properties make them ideal when interfacing the biological world …

Recent progress in materials chemistry to advance flexible bioelectronics in medicine

G Balakrishnan, J Song, C Mou… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Designing bioelectronic devices that seamlessly integrate with the human body is a
technological pursuit of great importance. Bioelectronic medical devices that reliably and …

Beyond stretchability: Strength, toughness, and elastic range in semiconducting polymers

AX Chen, AT Kleinschmidt, K Choudhary… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Essentially all research done to date on the mechanical properties of polymeric
semiconductors (eg, for organic photovoltaics and thin-film transistors) has had the …

Rubbery electronics fully made of stretchable elastomeric electronic materials

K Sim, Z Rao, F Ershad, C Yu - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Stretchable electronics outperform existing rigid and bulky electronics and benefit a wide
range of species, including humans, machines, and robots, whose activities are associated …

Immobilization strategies for organic semiconducting conjugated polymers

J Freudenberg, D Jänsch, F Hinkel… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
This Review details synthetic routes toward and properties of insoluble polymeric organic
semiconductors obtained through desolubilization strategies. Typical applications include …

The critical role of electron‐donating thiophene groups on the mechanical and thermal properties of donor–acceptor semiconducting polymers

S Zhang, MU Ocheje, L Huang… - Advanced Electronic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconducting donor–acceptor polymers are promising candidates for stretchable
electronics owing to their mechanical compliance. However, the effect of the electron …