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Fan, X. et al. Opportunities of flexible and portable electrochemical devices for energy storage: expanding the spotlight onto semi-solid/solid Electrolytes....
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Heeger, A. J. Nobel Lecture: Semiconducting and metallic polymers: the fourth generation of polymeric materials. Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 681–700...
Conducting polymers (CPs) with high conductivity and solution-processability have gained great advances since the pioneering work on doped polyacetylene1-3, thus...
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Precisely applied mechanical pressure can improve the electronic properties of a widely used polymer material. This requires that the material...
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For decades, field-effect transistors enabled by silicon-based semiconductors have powered the electronics revolution. But in recent years, manufacturers have come...
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The spiral is pervasive throughout the universe -- from the smallest DNA molecule to ferns and sunflowers, and from fingerprints...
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Polymers, large molecules made up of repeating smaller molecules called monomers, are found in nearly everything we use in our...
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Medical devices, cars, and many advanced technologies contain innumerable delicate components that are held together by electrically conductive polymers, such...
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Lightweight as a window cling and replicable as a newspaper, organic solar cells are emerging as a viable solution for...
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Polymer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced in the journal Nature Communications that they have solved a...