With the growing market of wearable devices for smart sensing and personalized healthcare applications, energy storage devices that ensure stable power supply and can be constructed in flexible platforms have attracted tremendous research interests. A variety of active materials and fabrication strategies of flexible energy storage devices have been intensively studied in recent years, especially for integrated self-powered systems and biosensing. A series of materials and applications for flexible energy storage devices have been studied in recent years. In this review, the commonly adopted fabrication methods of flexible energy storage devices are introduced. Besides, recent advances in integrating these energy devices into flexible selfpowered systems are presented. Furthermore, the applications of flexible energy storage devices for biosensing are summarized. Finally, the prospects and challenges of the self-powered sensing system for wearable electronics are discussed.
Over the past decades, considerable development and improvement can be observed in the area of the ion‐sensitive field‐effect transistor (ISFET) for biosensing applications. The mature semiconductor industry provides a solid foundation for the commercialization of the ISFET‐based sensors and extensive research has been conducted to improve the performance of ISFET, with a special research focus on the materials, device structures, and readout topologies. In this review, the basic theories and mechanisms of ISFET are first introduced. Research on ISFET gate materials is reviewed, followed by a summary of typical gate structures and signal readout methods for the ISFET sensing system. After that, a variety of biosensing applications including ions, deoxyribonucleic acid, proteins, and microbes are presented. Finally, the prospects and challenges of the ISFET‐based biosensors are discussed.
Recently, the authors observed ubiquitous polymer chain ordering in polymer micro- and nanostructures patterned by thermal nanoimprint. These polymer materials exhibit chain ordering during melt processing, which indicates that the double nanoimprint technique has been successfully performed. In this work, the authors present the double nanoimprint technique at elevated temperature for reducing the patterning size of thermoplastic functional polymers without the need for excessive imprint pressure, which eventually results in the size decrease in pattern formation. This double nanoimprint technique is a further application of thermal nanoimprint, followed by anisotropy of material properties, such as the refractive index and optical absorption.
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