A highly stretchable, transparent, and conductive polymer

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Wang, Yue ^a   Zhu, Chenxin ^a   Pfattner, Raphael ^a   Yan, Hongping ^b   Jin, Lihua ^a   Chen, Shucheng ^a   Molina Lopez, Francisco ^a   Lissel, Franziska ^a   Liu, Jia ^a   Rabiah, Noelle I ^a   Chen, Zheng ^a   Chung, Jong Won ^a,c   Linder, Christian ^a   Toney, Michael F ^b   Murmann, Boris ^a   Bao, Zhenan ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; SILVER; YARN;

CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; FABRICATION PROCESS; MECHANICALLY ROBUST; MOLECULAR MATERIALS; POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); STRETCHABLE CONDUCTORS; STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 85026786803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602076     Document Type: Article

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