Advanced Films and Coatings for Flexible Electronics
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2025 | Viewed by 1215
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biodevices; thin films; conductive polymer; hydrogels; 3D printing; bio-inspired material
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing demands of highly integrated flexible devices are promoting the development of new materials, new designs, and new fabrications of not only main structures, but also the coatings of whole devices. With these coatings, the devices are able to be applied to broader applications as they are more compatible with many extreme environments and help improve performance. They have a wide range of applications that can benefit biomedicines. Besides assisting devices, the coatings are able to achieve unique and independent functions. The developments of the coatings include the efforts of advanced materials, designs, and also fabrications.
This scope of this Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers in the following areas:
- Material development with experimental research for device coatings in the areas of new synthesised materials, combinations of fillers and substrates, or others;
- Structures and designs of coatings of devices helping devices gain better performance;
- Fabrication procedures to improve coating properties, including, but not limited to, spray coating, CVD, PVD, and 3D printing;
- Extended/integrated functions of coatings and their corresponding applications, like lower impedance to gain better signals and development of films, coatings, or related materials for biomedical applications;
- Computer modelling and simulations of coatings in the areas of materials, structural designs, applications, etc.;
- Recent developments of coatings considering many areas, including, but not limited to, the materials, or the mechanical, electrical, and chemical properties.
Dr. Wen Hong
Dr. Yubin Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flexible device
- functionality
- environment compatible
- biomedical applications
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