Cellulose Electronics and Photonics: A New Challenge for Materials a New Opportunity for Devices
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".
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Interests: cellulosic materials for electronics and photonics; oxide nanostructures; fiber-based functional materials and devices; electrical and electrochemical devices
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Interests: cellulosic materials for sensors and actuators; soft robotics; electrochemical biosensors; antimicrobial sanitization and disinfection; wound healing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Concerns about sustainability have attracted great interest in renewable materials from nature as emerging solutions to a range of technological challenges. In particular, cellulose-based materials are not only biocompatible and earth-abundant, but also have nature-provided intrinsic structures for a potentially transformative impact on new recyclable electronic and photonic devices, like paper displays, smart labels, smart packaging, bio-and medical applications, point-of-care (PoC) devices, RFID tags, disposable sensors and actuators, and energy harvesting devices.
To enable all these possible applications, some challenges in fundamental research and understanding must be surpassed, which include giving new functionalities to cellulose and structures with tailored properties, novel devices with both proper functionality and mechanical flexibility, cost effectiveness, scalable and reliable manufacturing techniques, and system-level integration.
This Special Issue aims to gather the research community working with cellulose-based materials and covers recent developments in topics that include: micro/nano fibers functionalization and assembling, new cellulose-based substrates (nanocellulose, bacterial cellulose, etc.), nanocomposites with other functional materials (conductors, semiconductor, insulators, piezoelectric/triboelectric, ion-permeable), multi-functional devices and actuators, bio-mimetic/nature-inspired structures, and cost-effective manufacturing technologies on large area (printing and roll-to-roll processes).
Hot topics to be covered in this Special Issue:
- Cellulose and other related biomaterials such as lignin;
- Nanocellulose-based functional structures and self/hierarchical assembly;
- Mechanical/thermal/barrier properties and multi-scale modeling;
- Micro/nanofluidics and biosensors on cellulose and related biomaterials;
- Electronic devices such as flexible electronics;
- Sensors and actuators;
- Soft robotics;
- Wearable and patch-based devices;
- Plasmonics and nanophotonics;
- Energy harverting applications such as solar cells, batteries, supercapacitors and piezo/triboelectrics;
- Other emerging applications such as smart materials, membranes and others.
Prof. Dr. Luis Pereira
Prof. Dr. Aaron Mazzeo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cellulose
- lignin
- nanocellulose
- micro/nanofluidics and biosensors
- electronic devices
- plasmonics and nanophotonics
- actuators
- solar cells, batteries, supercapacitors and piezo/triboelectrics
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