flexible – TechConnect Briefs

A Stretching/Bending-Insensitive Flexible Pressure Sensor with Carbon Nanotube-PDMS

Zhang R., Stevens Institute of Technology, US

Flexible pressure sensors have many successful applications in personal electronic devices, artificially intelligence, and industrial production applications [1]. Despite the good performance and high flexibility, the measurement of pressure under dynamic deformation has remained difficult [...]

Textile-enable Flexible and Foldable Lithium-ion Batteries

Zheng Z., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Wearable electronic technology is emerging as the next huge market opportunity after smartphones. Its market revenue is growing at a rate of ~ 25% to reach ~ USD 80 billion by 2025. Flexible lithium-ion (Li-ion) [...]

Silk biocomposites as flexible and biodegradable electrochemical sensors

Pal R.K., Yadavalli V.K., Virginia Commonwealth University, US

The convergence of naturally derived and synthetic polymers provides exciting opportunities to develop physiologically compliant bioelectronics systems. The combination of silk proteins and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) enables the formation of functional biocomposites with unique properties. [...]

The Electrochemical Printing Technique (EPT) for Flexible Electronics

Kadija I., ECSI Fibrotools, US

Contact Electroplating Technology (CET), a novel direct contact electroplating technology, enables electrochemical deposition of desired metals or alloys on patterned flexible substrates by direct uniform contact with the substrates. The capability to electroplate metals is [...]

Flexible Sheet-type Thermoelectric Generators for Energy Harvesting

Muto T., Kato K., Morita W., Lintec Corporation, JP

Seebeck type thermoelectric (TE) generators are one of the promising devices for the waste heat conversion to the electricity as well as the energy harvesters at a temperature range between room temperature and 200 oC. [...]

3-Dimensional Carbon Nanotube-Graphene Structure for Flexible Li-ion Battery

Kang C., Baskaran R., Mumukshu P., Choudhary N., Choi1 W., University of North Texas, US

Flexible electronics have attracted great attention for use in next-generation portable devices and their major applications include roll-up displays, wearable devices, active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, integrated circuit smart cards and implantable medical devices. [...]

3-Dimensional Carbon Nanotube-Graphene Structure for Flexible Li-ion Battery

Kang C., Baskaran R., Mumukshu P., Choudhary N., Choi1 W., University of North Texas, US

Flexible electronics have attracted great attention for use in next-generation portable devices and their major applications include roll-up displays, wearable devices, active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, integrated circuit smart cards and implantable medical devices. [...]

Extremely Flexible and Stretchable Carbon Nanotube Composites for Conformal Electronic Devices

Landorf C.W., Alford J., Garrison J., Gibbons S., Shih W-S, Leever B.J., Berrigan J.D., Brewer Science, Inc, US

Electronic devices are increasingly being used in products that are not expected to be rigid and flat. Many strategies have been implemented to create electronics that can work under stress and strain that would fracture [...]

Flexible and Turnable Biomimetic Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex (PDC) Supercapacitors

Thornton J., Christelle C., Chen E.T., Advanced Biomimetic Sensors, Inc., US

Flexible supercapacitors are challenged by low energy density and short discharge time. We report a new type of biomimetic pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (BIMPDC) supercapacitors having the self-assembling membrane (SAM) offer orders of magnitude higher in [...]

Flexible and Turnable Biomimetic Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex (PDC) Supercapacitors

Thornton J., Christelle C., Chen E.T., Advanced Biomimetic Sensors, Inc., US

Flexible supercapacitors are challenged by low energy density and short discharge time. We report a new type of biomimetic pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (BIMPDC) supercapacitors having the self-assembling membrane (SAM) offer orders of magnitude higher in [...]