Stretchable and Fully Degradable Semiconductors for Transient Electronics.

ABSTRACT: The next materials challenge in organic stretchable electronics is the development of a fully degradable semiconductor that maintains stable electrical performance under strain. Herein, we decouple the design of stretchability and transience by harmonizing polymer physics principles and molecular design in order to demonstrate for the first time a material that simultaneously possesses three disparate attributes: semiconductivity, intrinsic stretchability, and full degradability. We show that we can design acid-labile semiconducting polymers to appropriately phase segregate within a biodegradable elastomer, yielding semiconducting nanofibers that concurrently enable controlled transience and strain-independent transistor mobilities. Along with the future development of suitable conductors

SUBMITTER: Tran H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6891860 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature