Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 33, Issue 36, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202101469
Keywords
conjugated polymers; molecular engineering; organic semiconductors; organic solar cells; stretchable electronics
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) [OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079, OSR-2019-CRG8-4095.3]
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Emerging forms of soft, flexible, and stretchable electronics have the potential to revolutionize the future electronics industry, with stretchable photovoltaics as self-powering systems showing great promise for various applications. Current research is focused on achieving wearability and stretchability in electronic systems, utilizing both extrinsic and intrinsic approaches for inducing stretchability.
Emerging forms of soft, flexible, and stretchable electronics promise to revolutionize the electronics industries of the future offering radically new products that combine multiple functionalities, including power generation, with arbitrary form factor. For example, skin-like electronics promise to transform the human-machine-interface, but the softness of the skin is incompatible with traditional electronic components. To address this issue, new strategies toward soft and wearable electronic systems are currently being pursued, which also include stretchable photovoltaics as self-powering systems for use in autonomous and stretchable electronics of the future. Here recent developments in the field of stretchable photovoltaics are reviewed and their potential for various emerging applications are examined. Emphasis is placed on the different strategies to induce stretchability including extrinsic and intrinsic approaches. In the former case, engineering and patterning of the materials and devices are key elements while intrinsically stretchable systems rely on mechanically compliant materials such as elastomers and organic conjugated polymers. The result is a review article that provides a comprehensive summary of the progress to date in the field of stretchable solar cells from the nanoscale to macroscopic functional devices. The article is concluded by discussing the emerging trends and future developments.
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