Modification of zinc oxide interlayers with naphthalene diimide-based polymer zwitterions for efficient organic solar cells
December 2025
Zinc oxide (ZnO) has emerged as a promising electron transport layer (ETL) for optoelectronic devices due to its excellent charge carrier mobility and high optical transparency. However, the performance...
Self-healing materials for wearable electronics
December 2025
Wearable electronic devices have emerged as a cross-disciplinary research hotspot, showing great potential for next-generation health management technologies. However, these devices inevitably experience...
Entropy-driven synthesis of super-soft, ultra-stretchable yet highly-tough low-topology-entropy silicone elastomers for on-skin wearable electronics
December 2025
On-skin wearable electronics require substrate materials that are simultaneously ultra-soft, highly stretchable and mechanically robust – properties that conventional addition-cured silicone elastomers...
A flexible evaporation-induced generator enhanced by water-ion-temperature multifield coupling
December 2025
Evaporation-induced generators (EIGs) have emerged as a focal point in environmental energy harvesting research, with notable progress in boosting output power and elucidating their underlying mechanics....
Strain engineering in van der Waals materials towards flexible electronics and optoelectronics
December 2025
Flexible electronics and optoelectronics are rapidly advancing toward multifunctional integration, high sensitivity, and low power consumption, enabling next-generation technologies in wearable sensing,...
Sweat-based wearable biosensors: A new era of continuous, noninvasive health monitoring and diagnostics
December 2025
Wearable biosensors have revolutionised the field of healthcare monitoring and sweat-based wearable biosensors are a significant game changer due to the benefits of label-free detection, rapid response...
Intrinsically flexible organic phototransistors for bioinspired neuromorphic sensory system
December 2024
With the development of the Human-Computer Interaction and Internet of Things applications, bioinspired wearable electronics have gained extensive attention. In view of the low-cost availability, multifunctional...
Organic electrochemical transistor in wearable bioelectronics: Profiles, applications, and integration
December 2024
Wearable bioelectronics attracts great interest as an important medium to bridge electronics and biological systems. As an emerging part of wearable electronics, organic electrochemical transistors...
Wearable cuffless blood pressure monitoring: From flexible electronics to machine learning
December 2024
Hypertension significantly contributes to the widespread occurrence of cardiovascular disease globally. Routine portable blood pressure monitoring is crucial for the prevention and screening of hypertension....
Patterned growth of organic semiconductors for ultra-high resolution microelectronics and optoelectronics
December 2024
With intrinsic properties of flexibility, biocompatibility and lightweight, organic semiconductors have gained significant interests and witnessed substantial progresses in microelectronics and optoelectronics....
Applications of organic solar cells in wearable electronics
December 2024
Recently, wearable electronic devices have been drawing considerable interest because of their versatility in a wide range of applications, including motion detection, smart clothing, and health surveillance....
Flexible near-infrared organic photodetectors for emergent wearable applications
December 2024
With the evolution of Industry 4.0, next-generation wearable devices have come under the spotlight, where organic electronics are playing an important role due to their flexible form factor, high performance,...
Navigating the landscape of wearable electronics
December 2024
Patient-centric care: Unveiling the potential of wearable electronics in clinical practice
December 2024
Wearable electronics have the capability to monitor human activities and various physiological indicators in a real-time, continuous, non-invasive, and wireless manner, making them a valuable complement...
Hierarchical carbon nanotube-decorated polyacrylonitrile smart textiles for wearable biomonitoring
December 2024
Respiration monitoring enables continuous assessment of physiological status and potential diseases. We reported a polyacrylonitrile/carbon nanotubes/latex composite membrane (PCM) capable of converting...
Perovskite solar cells: From planar designs to fiber-based innovations
December 2024
Much progress has been made in wearable electronics in recent years, with fiber-based devices offering unprecedented capabilities in vision, hearing, environmental sensing, communication, energy management,...
Nanofibrous metal oxide semiconductor for sensory face masks
December 2024
Sensory face masks are designed to integrate sensors that monitor health metrics, such as breathing rate and body temperature, thereby providing continuous physiological data. However, current sensing...
Surface-tension-directed gate functionalization in organic electrochemical transistor for wearable sweat lactate monitoring
December 2024
Wearable sweat lactate detection holds significant potential for applications in healthcare and exercise performance evaluation. Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) is emerging as an efficient...
Highly stretchable carbon-based triboelectric nanogenerator textiles woven using coaxial fibres via direct ink writing
December 2024
In recent years, triboelectric nanogenerators have seen great progress in the Internet of Things, wearable electronics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence technologies. However, current triboelectric...
Flexible electrodes with enhancement of electronic-ionic conductivity for electrophysiological signal monitoring
December 2024
The transmission of electrophysiological signals to the skin is subject to decay, which renders them challenging to detect. To improve the signal-to-noise ratio, we need electrodes with low skin impedance...
Flexible modular strategy for tailored, human–machine fusion wearable electronics
December 2024
Over the past three decades, the field of wearable electronics has experienced significant growth, with future developments expected to lead to more seamless integration and a profound symbiosis between...
Highly durable MXene-based pressure sensor enabled by homogeneous interfacial locking
December 2024
Pressure sensors with linear high sensitivity and a broad response range enable the capture of subtle pressure changes across various scenarios, making them essential for accurate detection. Conventional...
Recent advances in conductive hydrogels for soft biointegrated electronics: Materials, properties, and device applications
December 2024
Conductive hydrogels have paved the way for recent progress in developing soft bioelectronics devices by addressing mechanical mismatches between soft biological tissues and rigid electronic devices....
Flexible polarization-sensitive photodetectors based on a NiPS3/MoTe2 heterostructure
December 2024
Flexible electronics that are stretchable or bendable have attracted increased attention in the field of wearable and portable electronics. Traditional bulk materials encounter challenges because of...