Degradable semiconducting polymers without long-range order for on-demand degradation of transient electronics
Jerika A. Chiong, Lukas Michalek, Amnahir E. Peña-Alcántara, Xiaozhou Ji, Nathaniel J. Schuster, Zhenan Bao
Abstract
Degradable, nanocrystalline semiconducting polymers lacking long-range order are able to degrade orders of magnitude faster than their semicrystalline counterparts.
Topics & Concepts
Materials scienceDegradation (telecommunications)PolymerCrystallinityNanocrystalline materialElectronicsTransient (computer programming)Range (aeronautics)Polymer degradationNanotechnologyComposite materialElectrical engineeringComputer scienceEngineeringOperating systemOrganic Electronics and PhotovoltaicsConducting polymers and applicationsAdvanced Memory and Neural Computing