Flexible devices based on metal oxides: Achievements and prospects focuses on the integration of flexibility in electronic circuitry, sensing applications, energy conversion and storage, and environmental remediation. Flexibility in these applications offers great potential, especially in the areas of wearable sensors, solar cells, transistors, electronic skin, and human body monitoring. The book investigates flexible and wearable devices based on metal oxide nanostructures or thin films that are capable of bending, rolling, compression, and folding, all while maintaining their performance. Metal oxide nanomaterials display exceptional properties that include mechanical stress tolerance, high optical transparency, high carrier mobilities, wide band gap, high dielectric constant, and superconductivity, amongst others. In some cases, they are also earth abundant, environmentally benign, cost-effective, chemically stable, and compatible with low-cost wet-chemical synthesis routes. The focus of the book is on wearables manufactured using sustainable manufacturing methods and integrated into substrates that are flexible, inexpensive, recyclable, abundant, and lightweight, including polymer, textile, cellulose and cork substrates.
1. 1 Introduction to flexible electronics - p. 3 2. 2 Substrates for flexible devices - p. 47 3. 3 Features of metal–oxides deposition on flexible substrates - p. 93 4. 4 Printing technology in metal–oxide-based flexible devices - p. 143 5. 5 Metal–oxide-based flexible supercapacitors - p. 185 6. 6 Metal–oxide-based flexible fuels cells - p. 215 7. 7 Metal–oxides-based flexible batteries - p. 237 8. 8 Novel paths for metal oxide−based materials for light harvesting and emission technologies - p. 265 9. 9 Flexible solar cells improved with photonic metal oxides - p. 307 10. 10 Metal–oxide-based flexible nanogenerators - p. 345 11. 11 Metal–oxide-based flexible gas sensors - p. 383 12. 12 Metal–oxide-based flexible biosensors - p. 419 13. 13 Metal–oxide-based flexible photodetectors - p. 457 14. 14 Metal oxide–based flexible thin-film transistors - p. 501 15. 15 Metal–oxide-based flexible photocatalysts - p. 533 16. 16 Conclusions and future perspectives on the field - p. 581 17. Index - p. 593
Flexible devices based on metal oxides: Achievements and prospects focuses on the integration of flexibility in electronic circuitry, sensing applications, energy conversion and storage, and environmental remediation. Flexibility in these applications offers great potential, especially in the areas of wearable sensors, solar cells, transistors, electronic skin, and human body monitoring. The book investigates flexible and wearable devices based on metal oxide nanostructures or thin films that are capable of bending, rolling, compression, and folding, all while maintaining their performance. Metal oxide nanomaterials display exceptional properties that include mechanical stress tolerance, high optical transparency, high carrier mobilities, wide band gap, high dielectric constant, and superconductivity, amongst others. In some cases, they are also earth abundant, environmentally benign, cost-effective, chemically stable, and compatible with low-cost wet-chemical synthesis routes. The focus of the book is on wearables manufactured using sustainable manufacturing methods and integrated into substrates that are flexible, inexpensive, recyclable, abundant, and lightweight, including polymer, textile, cellulose and cork substrates.
1. 1 Introduction to flexible electronics - p. 3 2. 2 Substrates for flexible devices - p. 47 3. 3 Features of metal–oxides deposition on flexible substrates - p. 93 4. 4 Printing technology in metal–oxide-based flexible devices - p. 143 5. 5 Metal–oxide-based flexible supercapacitors - p. 185 6. 6 Metal–oxide-based flexible fuels cells - p. 215 7. 7 Metal–oxides-based flexible batteries - p. 237 8. 8 Novel paths for metal oxide−based materials for light harvesting and emission technologies - p. 265 9. 9 Flexible solar cells improved with photonic metal oxides - p. 307 10. 10 Metal–oxide-based flexible nanogenerators - p. 345 11. 11 Metal–oxide-based flexible gas sensors - p. 383 12. 12 Metal–oxide-based flexible biosensors - p. 419 13. 13 Metal–oxide-based flexible photodetectors - p. 457 14. 14 Metal oxide–based flexible thin-film transistors - p. 501 15. 15 Metal–oxide-based flexible photocatalysts - p. 533 16. 16 Conclusions and future perspectives on the field - p. 581 17. Index - p. 593
