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Open AccessCounterion docking: a general approach to reducing energetic disorder in doped polymeric semiconductors
Molecular do** plays an important role in controlling the carrier concentration of organic semiconductors. However, the introduction of dopant counterions often results in increased energetic disorder and tr...
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Open AccessAutonomous self-healing supramolecular polymer transistors for skin electronics
Skin-like field-effect transistors are key elements of bio-integrated devices for future user-interactive electronic-skin applications. Despite recent rapid developments in skin-like stretchable transistors, i...
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Open AccessHigh-mobility semiconducting polymers with different spin ground states
Organic semiconductors with high-spin ground states are fascinating because they could enable fundamental understanding on the spin-related phenomenon in light element and provide opportunities for organic mag...
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High-brightness all-polymer stretchable LED with charge-trap** dilution
Next-generation light-emitting displays on skin should be soft, stretchable and bright1–7. Previously reported stretchable light-emitting devices were mostly based on inorganic nanomaterials, such as light-emitti...
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Open AccessApproaching disorder-tolerant semiconducting polymers
Do** has been widely used to control the charge carrier concentration in organic semiconductors. However, in conjugated polymers, n-do** is often limited by the tradeoff between do** efficiency and charg...
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Open AccessA molecular design approach towards elastic and multifunctional polymer electronics
Next-generation wearable electronics require enhanced mechanical robustness and device complexity. Besides previously reported softness and stretchability, desired merits for practical use include elasticity, ...
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Open AccessUltra-conformal skin electrodes with synergistically enhanced conductivity for long-time and low-motion artifact epidermal electrophysiology
Accurate and imperceptible monitoring of electrophysiological signals is of primary importance for wearable healthcare. Stiff and bulky pregelled electrodes are now commonly used in clinical diagnosis, causing...
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Open AccessSMART transfer method to directly compare the mechanical response of water-supported and free-standing ultrathin polymeric films
Intrinsic mechanical properties of sub-100 nm thin films are markedly difficult to obtain, yet an ever-growing necessity for emerging fields such as soft organic electronics. To complicate matters, the interfa...
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Open AccessThe coupling and competition of crystallization and phase separation, correlating thermodynamics and kinetics in OPV morphology and performances
The active layer morphology transition of organic photovoltaics under non-equilibrium conditions are of vital importance in determining the device power conversion efficiency and stability; however, a general ...
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Open AccessThe meniscus-guided deposition of semiconducting polymers
The electronic devices that play a vital role in our daily life are primarily based on silicon and are thus rigid, opaque, and relatively heavy. However, new electronics relying on polymer semiconductors are o...
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Intrinsically stretchable and healable semiconducting polymer for organic transistors
Introducing non-covalent crosslinking moieties to polymer semiconductors produces a stretchable and healable material suitable for wearable electronics.
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Open AccessSignificance of the double-layer capacitor effect in polar rubbery dielectrics and exceptionally stable low-voltage high transconductance organic transistors
Both high gain and transconductance at low operating voltages are essential for practical applications of organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). Here, we describe the significance of the double-layer capaci...
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Open AccessFlow-enhanced solution printing of all-polymer solar cells
Morphology control of solution coated solar cell materials presents a key challenge limiting their device performance and commercial viability. Here we present a new concept for controlling phase separation du...