Liquid-repellent surfaces, especially smooth solid surfaces with covalently grafted flexible
polymer brushes or alkyl monolayers, are the focus of an expanding research area. Surface …

An elastic printed circuit board (E-PCB) is a conductive framework used for the facile
assembly of system-level stretchable electronics. E-PCBs require elastic conductors that …

Light-material interaction has received significant attention for wearable electronics because
of its exceptional ability to excite multi-physical, transient, and non-equilibrium photon …

Antifouling coatings are often required to have both excellent fouling resistance and
mechanical properties for their applications. This study reports a water‐borne antifouling …

Flexible microneedles are important tools that allow access to the inside of biological tissue
from the outside without surgery. However, it had been hard to realize microneedle sensor …

The development of environmentally friendly plastics is critical to ensure sustainable
development. In contrast to polymer plastics derived from petrochemicals, inorganic …

Transparent omniphobic or anti‐smudge coatings with glass‐like wear resistance and
polymer‐like bendability have many potential applications but there are no reports of such …

The encapsulating film for the touchscreen of a foldable smartphone consists of a flexible
polymer layer covered by a hard coating and an antismudge coating, and the two coating …

Flexible hard coatings with strong adhesion are critical requirements for several foldable
devices and marine applications; however, only a few such coatings have been reported …

The development of flexible displays and electronics is hindered by the disadvantages of
polymeric window films, such as low mechanical strength, poor optical properties, and lack …