A non-covalent-bonding method for making organic semiconductors that are stretchable and healable
Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 08:31
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—A large team of researchers from the U.S., Japan and South Korea has developed a non-covalent-bonding method to produce high-performance organic semiconductors that are stretchable and healable. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers describe the transistors they made and the results they found when exposing them to twisting and stretching. Siegfried Bauer and Martin Kaltenbrunner with Johannes Kepler University in Austria offer a News & Views piece on the work done by the researchers and provide some insights into the hurdles still facing material science engineers seeking to make such products ready for use in the real world.