Scalable Flexible Hybrid Membranes with Photonic Structures for Daytime Radiative Cooling

Passive radiative cooling technology can cool down an object by reflecting solar light and radiating heat simultaneously. However, photonic radiators generally require stringent and nanoscale‐precision fabrication, which greatly restricts mass production and renders them less attractive for large‐area applications. A simple, inexpensive, and scalable electrospinning method is demonstrated for fabricating a high‐performance flexible hybrid membrane radiator (FHMR) that consists of polyvinylidene fluoride/tetraethyl orthosilicate fibers with numerous nanopores inside and SiO₂ microspheres randomly distributed across its surface. Even without silver back‐coating, a 300 µm thick FHMR has an average infrared emissivity >0.96 and reflects ≈97% of solar irradiance. Moreover, it exhibits great flexibility and superior strength. The daytime cooling performance this device is experimentally demonstrated with an average radiative cooling power of 61 W m^?2 and a temperature decrease up to 6 °C under a peak solar intensity of 1000 W m^?2. This performance is comparable to those of state‐of‐the‐art devices.     

The First Flexible Dual‐Ion Microbattery Demonstrates Superior Capacity and Ultrahigh Energy Density: Small and Powerful

Humans live today in a high‐tech and informationalized society. With the development of the emerging electronic information age, various electronic systems are inclined to be multifunctional and miniaturized. It is urgent to develop “small and powerful” micro‐batteries with flexibility and high electrochemical performance to meet the diverse needs of microelectronic components. However, low electrochemical performance exists in traditional microenergy storage devices, which fail to satisfy the energy needs for microdevices. Here, for the first time, a planar integrated flexible rechargeable dual‐ion microbattery (DIMB) is reported, which is fabricated from an interdigital pattern of graphite as an electrode and lithium hexafluorophosphate as an electrolyte. As a microbattery, the DIMB exhibits a high reversible capacity of 56.50 mAh cm^?3, and excellent cycle stability with 90% capacity retention after 300 cycles under a high working voltage. The application of DIMB in microdevices, such as light‐emitting diodes (LEDs), digital electronic game consoles, and electrochromic glasses is also investigated, fully demonstrating its “small and powerful” performance. The integrated DIMB is a high‐voltage microdevice that reaches a nonpareil discharge voltage of about 100 V and a charging capacity of 102 mAh g^?1. This dual ion‐based flexible microbattery could become a promising candidate for energy storage and conversion components in next‐generation microelectronic devices and integrated electronic devices.     

Recent Progress in Flexible and Stretchable Organic Solar Cells

Flexible and stretchable organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted enormous attention due to their potential applications in wearable and portable devices. To achieve flexibility and stretchability, many efforts have been made with regard to mechanically robust electrodes, interface layers, and photoactive semiconductors. This has greatly improved the performance of the devices. State‐of‐the‐art flexible and stretchable OSCs have achieved a power conversion efficiency of 15.21% (16.55% for tandem flexible devices) and 13%, respectively. Here, the recent progress of flexible and stretchable OSCs in terms of their components and processing methods are summarized and discussed. The future challenges and perspectives for flexible and stretchable OSCs are also presented.     

Highly Stretchable or Transparent Conductor Fabrication by a Hierarchical Multiscale Hybrid Nanocomposite

As is frequently seen in sci‐fi movies, future electronics are expected to ultimately be in the form of wearable electronics. To realize wearable electronics, the electric components should be soft, flexible, and even stretchable to be human‐friendly. An important step is presented toward realization of wearable electronics by developing a hierarchical multiscale hybrid nanocomposite for highly flexible, stretchable, or transparent conductors. The hybrid nanocomposite combines the enhanced mechanical compliance, electrical conductivity, and optical transparency of small CNTs (d ≈ 1.2 nm) and the enhanced electrical conductivity of relatively bigger Ag nanowire (d ≈ 150 nm) backbone to provide efficient multiscale electron transport path with Ag nanowire current backbone collector and local CNT percolation network. The highly elastic hybrid nanocomposite conductors and highly transparent flexible conductors can be mounted on any non‐planar or soft surfaces to realize human‐friendly electronics interface for future wearable electronics.     

Conductive MXene Nanocomposite Organohydrogel for Flexible,Healable, Low‐Temperature Tolerant Strain Sensors

Conductive hydrogels are attracting tremendous interest in the field of flexible and wearable soft strain sensors because of their great potential in electronic skins, and personalized healthcare monitoring. However, conventional conductive hydrogels using pure water as the dispersion medium will inevitably freeze at subzero temperatures, resulting in the diminishment of their conductivity and mechanical properties; meanwhile, even at room temperature, such hydrogels suffer from the inevitable loss of water due to evaporation, which leads to a poor shelf‐life. Herein, an antifreezing, self‐healing, and conductive MXene nanocomposite organohydrogel (MNOH) is developed by immersing MXene nanocomposite hydrogel (MNH) in ethylene glycol (EG) solution to replace a portion of the water molecules. The MNH is prepared from the incorporation of the conductive MXene nanosheet networks into hydrogel polymer networks. The as‐prepared MNOH exhibits an outstanding antifreezing property (?40 °C), long‐lasting moisture retention (8 d), excellent self‐healing capability, and superior mechanical properties. Furthermore, this MNOH can be assembled as a wearable strain sensor to detect human biologic activities with a relatively broad strain range (up to 350% strain) and a high gauge factor of 44.85 under extremely low temperatures. This work paves the way for potential applications in electronic skins, human?machine interactions, and personalized healthcare monitoring.     

胆甾型液晶显示技术和产业发展

以未来三年电子纸市场巨大的发展空间为切入点,分析了现阶段几种柔性显示技术的优势和劣势,认为胆甾型液晶显示在功耗、彩色化、对比度和抗震性等方面具有优势,但成本恐将成为其发展瓶颈。从全球来看,胆甾型液晶的研究和产业化主要集中在国外,国内高校和研究机构还停留在基础研究阶段。介绍了复旦大学在胆甾型液晶领域的研究成果,并结合我国产业环境及柔性显示产业发展特性给出三点发展建议。     

柔性有机发光器件封装材料气体渗透率的质谱法测量

柔性有机电致发光器件(FOLED)封装材料的研究已成为目前国内外FOLED研究的热点。如何测量水蒸汽、氧气和其他活性气体对FOLED封装材料的渗透率, 是FOLED封装材料研究的一个重要课题。提出用质谱分析技术解决柔性有机电致发光器件封装材料气体渗透率的测量问题, 建立了一个封装材料渗透率的质谱法测量系统。介绍了该系统的原理, 利用该系统测量了水蒸汽、氧气和二氧化碳等气体对PET塑料, 以及水蒸汽对ITO薄膜、银薄膜等材料的渗透率。所获得的实验结果与其他文献报道的数据进行了比较, 证明质谱法测量的结果是可信的。     

复合材料定向管力学特性仿真

考虑复合材料定向管柔性变形对火箭弹运动的影响,用虚拟样机技术建立了复合材料定向管受载的力学模型,阐述了仿真计算的原理和算法。通过仿真建模和数值计算,得到了需要的数据结果,掌握了火箭弹在定向管内发射的运动规律和玻璃钢复合材料定向管的动态力学性能,为玻璃钢定向管的结构优化设计与制作提供参考和借鉴。     

聚能切割索切割能力仿真及试验研究

为深入研究聚能切割索的切割能力,采用数值仿真和试验的手段研究了聚能切割索（Flexible Linear Shaped Charge,FLSC）切割不同材料铝板的切割效果。仿真和试验结果表明：材料的屈服强度对侵彻性能影响最大,随着被切割对象屈服强度的增大,侵彻深度降低。