A colour-tunable, weavable fibre-shaped polymer light-emitting electrochemical cell

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 233-238

  Zhang, Zhitao ^a   Guo, Kunping ^b   Li, Yiming ^a   Li, Xueyi ^a   Guan, Guozhen ^a   Li, Houpu ^a   Luo, Yongfeng ^a   Zhao, Fangyuan ^a   Zhang, Qi ^b   Wei, Bin ^b   Pei, Qibing ^c   Peng, Huisheng ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; COLOR; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; ELECTRODES; FIBERS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; POLYMERS; SHEET METAL; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY; WEAVING;

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; ALL SOLUTIONS; COAXIAL STRUCTURES; ELECTROLUMINESCENT POLYMERS; INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS; METAL WIRES; POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; VIEWING ANGLE;

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 84926419581     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.37     Document Type: Article

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