Preface......................................................................................................................vii Editors ....................................................................................................................... ix Contributors ............................................................................................................. xi Section i Fundamentals 1 Plastic Electronics ............................................................................................. 3 Chang-Hyun Kim 2 Materials--Flexible 1D Electronics ................................................................. 23 Aftab M. Hussain 3 Flexible 2D Electronics in Sensors and Bioanalytical Applications .............. 45 Parikshit Sahatiya, Rinky Sha, and Sushmee Badhulika 4 Flexible and Stretchable Thin-Film Transistors ............................................. 63 Joseph B. Andrews, Jorge A. Cardenas, and Aaron D. Franklin 5 Mechanics of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics .........................................91 Nouha Alcheikh Section ii Devices 6 Printed Electronics ..........................................................................................111 Mohammad Vaseem and Atif Shamim 7 Ferroic Materials and Devices for Flexible Memory .....................................149 Saidur R. Bakaul, Mahnaz Islam, and Md. Kawsar Alam 8 Flexible and Stretchable High-Frequency RF Electronics ............................ 165 Juhwan Lee, Inkyu Lee, and Zhenqiang Ma 9 Flexible and Stretchable Sensors ....................................................................189 Tae Hoon Eom and Jeong In Han 10 Artificial Skin .................................................................................................213 Joanna M. Nassar 11 Flexible and Stretchable Actuators ................................................................ 251 Nadeem Qaiser 12 Flexible and Stretchable Photovoltaics and Its Energy Harvesters ............. 277 Devendra Singh 13 Flexible and Stretchable Energy Storage ....................................................... 301 Arwa Kutbee 14 3D Printed Flexible and Stretchable Electronics ........................................... 315 Galo Torres Sevilla 15 Flexible and Stretchable Paper-Based Structures for Electronic Applications ..................................................................................337 Tongfen Liang, Ramendra Kishor Pal, Xiyue Zou, Anna Root, and Aaron D. Mazzeo 16 Reliability Assessment of Low-Temperature ZnO-Based Thin-Film Transistors ......................................................................................................375 Chadwin D. Young, Rodolfo A. Rodriguez-Davila, Pavel Bolshakov, Richard A. Chapman, and Manuel Quevedo-Lopez Section iii Systems and Applications 17 Reconfigurable Electronics ........................................................................... 399 Jhonathan Prieto Rojas 18 Flexible and Stretchable Devices for Human-Machine Interfaces ...............415 Irmandy Wicaksono and Canan Dagdeviren 19 Wearable Electronics ..................................................................................... 467 Sherjeel M. Khan and Muhammad Mustafa Hussain 20 Flexible Electronic Technologies for Implantable Applications .................. 487 Sohail Faizan Shaikh 21 Bioresorbable Electronics .............................................................................. 505 Joong Hoon Lee, Gwan-Jin Ko, Huanyu Cheng, and Suk-Wong Hwang Index .......................................................................................................................525

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