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Graphene and 2D Materials for Flexible Electronics

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 6435

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Prof. Dr. Irina V. Antonova

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Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
Interests: graphene; derivatives; heterostructures; electronics devices; memristors; sensors
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Dear Colleagues,

The rapid growth of the popularity of the Internet of Things and flexible, wearable, and stretchable electronics in the past decade has resulted in strong progress in flexible electronics. It is expected that flexible electronics in the near future will take a significant place in our daily life, in the fileds of health care, computation and memory, gadgets, touch screens and displays, energy storage and generation, electronic textile, human activities, and more. Two-dimensional layered crystals are believed to be the most promising candidates for flexible electronics applications, owing to their well-known features including the ultimate thickness scalability down to atomic thin, high flexibility and intrinsic strain limit. But the investigation of mechanical properties of 2D materials, its derivatives and composites remain incomplete or for some materials they are simply unknown. Another important item is the design of structures or devices (the combination of the layers, their configuration, and so on) focused on the wide spectrum of applications. In the present Issue, we hope to discuss the new results of the mechanical properties of 2D materials. The planned Issue welcomes the studies of new 2D materials, structures, and devices.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Prof. Dr. Irina V. Antonova
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • graphene
  • 2D materials
  • mechanical properties
  • wearable and stretchable materials
  • new trends
  • structures and devices

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Flexibility of Fluorinated Graphene-Based Materials
by Irina Antonova, Nadezhda Nebogatikova, Nabila Zerrouki, Irina Kurkina and Artem Ivanov
Materials 2020, 13(5), 1032; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13051032 - 25 Feb 2020
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The resistivity of different films and structures containing fluorinated graphene (FG) flakes and chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown graphene of various fluorination degrees under tensile and compressive strains due to bending deformations was studied. Graphene and multilayer graphene films grown by means of the [...] Read more.
The resistivity of different films and structures containing fluorinated graphene (FG) flakes and chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown graphene of various fluorination degrees under tensile and compressive strains due to bending deformations was studied. Graphene and multilayer graphene films grown by means of the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method were transferred onto the flexible substrate by laminating and were subjected to fluorination. They demonstrated a weak fluorination degree (F/C lower 20%). Compressive strains led to a strong (one-two orders of magnitude) decrease in the resistivity in both cases, which was most likely connected with the formation of additional conductive paths through fluorinated graphene. Tensile strain up to 3% caused by the bending of both types of CVD-grown FG led to a constant value of the resistivity or to an irreversible increase in the resistivity under repeated strain cycles. FG films created from the suspension of the fluorinated graphene with a fluorination degree of 20–25%, after the exclusion of design details of the used structures, demonstrated a stable resistivity at least up to 2–3% of tensile and compressive strain. The scale of resistance changes ΔR/R0 was found to be in the range of 14–28% with a different sign at the 10% tensile strain (bending radius 1 mm). In the case of the structures with the FG thin film printed on polyvinyl alcohol, a stable bipolar resistive switching was observed up to 6.5% of the tensile strain (bending radius was 2 mm). A further increase in strain (6.5–8%) leads to a decrease in ON/OFF current ratio from 5 down to 2 orders of magnitude. The current ratio decrease is connected with an increase under the tensile strain in distances between conductive agents (graphene islands and traps at the interface with polyvinyl alcohol) and thickness of fluorinated barriers within the active layer. The excellent performance of the crossbar memristor structures under tensile strain shows that the FG films and structures created from suspension are especially promising for flexible electronics. Full article
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Graphene-PEDOT: PSS Humidity Sensors for High Sensitive, Low-Cost, Highly-Reliable, Flexible, and Printed Electronics
by Vasiliy I. Popov, Igor A. Kotin, Nadezhda A. Nebogatikova, Svetlana A. Smagulova and Irina V. Antonova
Materials 2019, 12(21), 3477; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12213477 - 24 Oct 2019
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A comparison of the structure and sensitivity of humidity sensors prepared from graphene (G)-PEDOT: PSS (poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)) composite material on flexible and solid substrates is performed. Upon an increase in humidity, the G: PEDOT: PSS composite films ensure a response (a linear increase [...] Read more.
A comparison of the structure and sensitivity of humidity sensors prepared from graphene (G)-PEDOT: PSS (poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)) composite material on flexible and solid substrates is performed. Upon an increase in humidity, the G: PEDOT: PSS composite films ensure a response (a linear increase in resistance versus humidity) up to 220% without restrictions typical of sensors fabricated from PEDOT: PSS. It was found that the response of the examined sensors depends not only on the composition of the layer and on its thickness but, also, on the substrate used. The capability of flexible substrates to absorb the liquid component of the ink used to print the sensors markedly alters the structure of the film, making it more porous; as a result, the response to moisture increases. However, in the case of using paper, a hysteresis of resistance occurs during an increase or decrease of humidity; that hysteresis is associated with the capability of such substrates to absorb moisture and transfer it to the sensing layer of the sensor. A study of the properties of G: PEDOT: PSS films and test device structures under deformation showed that when the G: PEDOT: PSS films or structures are bent to a bending radius of 3 mm (1.5% strain), the properties of those films and structures remain unchanged. This result makes the composite humidity sensors based on G: PEDOT: PSS films promising devices for use in flexible and printed electronics. Full article
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