Nanocomposites and hybrid materials
GFlexible, stretchable and printable electronic materials for sustainable healthcare, sensing and actuation, energy applications and interconnections
Printed electronics is a multidisciplinary research field spanning from fundamentals to fabrication and applications requiring flexible and stretchable alternatives. This symposium focuses on the emerging and advanced flexible and stretchable electronic materials, scientific insights, viable manufacturing technology and application.
Scope:
The form factors of electronics are rapidly transitioning from traditional rigid and 2D shapes to more complex form factors - soft, flexible, bendable, and stretchable. These next-generation electronics covers micro- and nanocomposites with conductive solid fillers from carbon, metal, 1D, 2D fillers in (bio)polymer matrices, and hybrids at the molecular and nanoscales. Such structures conform to conductive textiles or non-woven conductors that interfaces with biology and nature. Conductive liquid metals, organic semiconductor gels and blends, ionic stretchable conductors such as hydrogels and their combinations further completes a range of emerging soft conductors. This cutting-edge research from large area electronics, over healthcare devices to energy and emerging human/computer demands easy processability of soft electronic materials.
This symposium will focus on three fronts encompassing fundamental and applied research:
- Emerging printing and coating technologies: 2D-4D printing, device integration, interconnection
- Materials innovation: multifunctional inks, additives, fillers, and nature-inspired materials
- Characterizations and applications: process-structure-property relations, rheological studies, electromechanical testing, interfaces with biological tissues, for sensors & actuators, healthcare, wearables, energy, and other application fields
The successful development and use of such electronic materials requires closer collaboration between those who synthesize, characterize, and integrate stretchable conductors. Additionally, the widespread concerns regarding sustainability and net-zero technologies aim at unconventional electronics while addressing the issues like environmental impact, development of nature-inspired solutions and, alternative strategies for prototyping. To meet these requirements, we need high-performance and sustainable manufacturing processes with ultra-low energy consumptions and ecofriendly multifunctional materials with tailored properties.
Through a series of keynotes, invited and contributed presentations, we curate this symposium to offer a comprehensive picture, covering key innovation trends, enabling or breakthrough technologies, and emerging applications in flexible and printed electronics.
Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:
- Flexible/hybrid, stretchable, low cost, large area, green coating/printing (2D-4D) technologies;
- Printable materials for sensors, actuators, smart textiles, wearables, solar cells, LEDs, energy;
- Conformal bioelectronic materials based on human-device interfaces;
- Materials for physical and chemical electronic sensing;
- Liquid metals, conductive fillers/additives, nanocomposites, hyperelastic/ultrasoft conductors;
- Advanced characterization techniques for printed materials;
- In situ/operando techniques towards materials and device characterizations;
- Environmental remediation, recycling, recovery, and circularity in soft electronics
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Harrison Hughes Building, The Quadrangle, University of Liverpool, L69 3GH, U.K.
egarciat@liverpool.ac.uk50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea
jang-ung@yonsei.ac.krInstitute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC), Wetenschapspark 1, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
monika.rai@uhasselt.beDept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Finlandsgade 22, Aarhus 8210, Denmark
shweta@ece.au.dkCampus D2 2, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
tobias.kraus@leibniz-inm.deInstitute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC), Wetenschapspark 1, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
wim.deferme@uhasselt.be