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Papers

(The median citation count of npj Flexible Electronics is 14. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Inherently integrated microfiber-based flexible proprioceptive sensor for feedback-controlled soft actuators	418
Deformable micro-supercapacitor fabricated via laser ablation patterning of Graphene/liquid metal	331
Resilient conductive membrane synthesized by in-situ polymerisation for wearable non-invasive electronics on moving appendages of cyborg insect	139
Soft, stretchable thermal protective substrates for wearable electronics	122
Strain-dependent charge trapping and its impact on the operational stability of polymer field-effect transistors	99
Operando spin observation elucidating performance-improvement mechanisms during operation of Ruddlesden–Popper Sn-based perovskite solar cells	97
Flexible micro-LED display and its application in Gbps multi-channel visible light communication	97
Solution processed low power organic field-effect transistor bio-chemical sensor of high transconductance efficiency	97
Universal hydrogel adhesives with robust chain entanglement for bridging soft electronic materials	96
Unobstructive and safe-to-wear watt-level wireless charger	88
Flexible adaptive sensing tonometry for medical-grade multi-parametric hemodynamic monitoring	78
Author Correction: Bringing sensation to prosthetic hands—chronic assessment of implanted thin-film electrodes in humans	78
Flexible and wearable battery-free backscatter wireless communication system for colour imaging	78
Self-adaptive epidermal blood flow sensor for high-flux vascular access monitoring of hemodialysis patients	66
Digitally-defined ultrathin transparent wireless sensor network for room-scale imperceptible ambient intelligence	65
Flexible electronic-photonic 3D integration from ultrathin polymer chiplets	64
Stretchable, transparent and multifunctional PVC-gel heater: a novel approach to skin-mountable, wearable thermal devices	63
Ultrastretchable and wearable conductive multifilament enabled by buckled polypyrrole structure in parallel	62
Vertically stacked all-organic ring-shaped pulse oximetry sensor with ultra-low power consumption and low-luminance operation	61
Skin-integrated stretchable actuators toward skin-compatible haptic feedback and closed-loop human-machine interactions	60
High performance flexible Sn-Pb mixed perovskite solar cells enabled by a crosslinking additive	59
Large-area magnetic skin for multi-point and multi-scale tactile sensing with super-resolution	59
Highly pixelated, untethered tactile interfaces for an ultra-flexible on-skin telehaptic system	56
Water stable and matrix addressable OLED fiber textiles for wearable displays with large emission area	55
Rotating square tessellations enabled stretchable and adaptive curved display	55

Flexible magnetoelectric complex oxide heterostructures on muscovite for proximity sensor	55
Solution-processable through-space charge-transfer emitters via solubilizing groups modification	55
Balancing efficiency and transparency in organic transparent photovoltaics	54
Uniaxial extending neural probes for bleeding-absent implantation	54
An intrinsically stretchable multi-biochemical sensor for sweat analysis using photo-patternable ecoflex	53
Vertical graphene on flexible substrate, overcoming limits of crack-based resistive strain sensors	52
Large-scale programmable assembly of functional micro-components for advanced electronics via light-regulated adhesion and polymer growth	52
Soft, full Wheatstone bridge 3D pressure sensors for cardiovascular monitoring	52
Intrinsically flexible all-carbon-nanotube electronics enabled by a hybrid organic–inorganic gate dielectric	51
Fibrillary gelation and dedoping of PEDOT:PSS fibers for interdigitated organic electrochemical transistors and circuits	50
High sensitivity and broad linearity range pressure sensor based on hierarchical in-situ filling porous structure	50
Flexible Miniaturized Sensor Technologies for Long-Term Physiological Monitoring	49
Multi-parameter e-skin based on biomimetic mechanoreceptors and stress field sensing	48
Highly reliable and stretchable OLEDs based on facile patterning method: toward stretchable organic optoelectronic devices	47
Locomotion control of Cyborg insects by using ultra-thin, self-adhesive electrode film on abdominal surface	46
Specific behavior of transition metal chloride complexes for achieving giant ionic thermoelectric properties	46
A ternary heterogeneous hydrogel with strength elements for resilient, self-healing, and recyclable epidermal electronics	46
Morphology simulation of drop-on-demand inkjet-printed droplets	45
Stability improvement mechanism due to less charge accumulation in ternary polymer solar cells	44
Controllably grown single-crystal films as flexoelectric nanogenerators for continuous direct current output	44
Flexible kesterite thin-film solar cells under stress	43
Large-area photonic lift-off process for flexible thin-film transistors	43
Broadband mechanoresponsive liquid metal sensors	41
Flexible radio-frequency micro electro-mechanical switch towards the applications of satellite communications	41
Miniaturized all-in-one microneedle device for point of care light therapy	41
High-precision flexible sweat self-collection sensor for mental stress evaluation	40
A kirigami-based reconfigurable metasurface for selective electromagnetic transmission modulation	39
Analytic modeling and validation of strain in textile-based OLEDs for advanced textile display technologies	38
Interplay between strain and charge in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 flexible photovoltaics	38
Author Correction: Stretchable wireless optoelectronic synergistic patches for effective wound healing	38
Flexible TiO2-WO3−x hybrid memristor with enhanced linearity and synaptic plasticity for precise weight tuning in neuromorphic computing	37
Low temperature chemical sintering of inkjet-printed Zn nanoparticles for highly conductive flexible electronic components	36
Ultra-conformable liquid metal particle monolayer on air/water interface for substrate-free E-tattoo	36
Biomolecule sensors based on organic electrochemical transistors	36
Telemedicine platform for health assessment remotely by an integrated nanoarchitectonics FePS3/rGO and Ti3C2-based wearable device	35
Large-scale fully printed “Lego Bricks” type wearable sweat sensor for physical activity monitoring	35
Short-wave infrared organic phototransistors with strong infrared-absorbing polytriarylamine by electron-transfer doping	35
Flexible computational photodetectors for self-powered activity sensing	34
A new route to fabricate flexible, breathable composites with advanced thermal management capability for wearable electronics	34
Flexible, multimodal device for measurement of body temperature, core temperature, thermal conductivity and water content	34
The applications of flexible electronics in dental, oral, and craniofacial medicine	33
Kirigami-inspired, three-dimensional piezoelectric pressure sensors assembled by compressive buckling	33
Liquid-metal micro-networks with strain-induced conductivity for soft electronics and robotic skin	33
Conformal printed electronics on flexible substrates and inflatable catheters using lathe-based aerosol jet printing	33
Recent advanced applications of ion-gel in ionic-gated transistor	33
Fully 3D-printed organic electrochemical transistors	32
Zinc hybrid sintering for printed transient sensors and wireless electronics	31
Deep-learning-assisted printed liquid metal sensory system for wearable applications and boxing training	31
Biocompatible and breathable healthcare electronics with sensing performances and photothermal antibacterial effect for motion-detecting	30
A review of sampling, energy supply and intelligent monitoring for long-term sweat sensors	30

All-natural phyllosilicate-polysaccharide triboelectric sensor for machine learning-assisted human motion prediction	30
Direct roll transfer printed silicon nanoribbon arrays based high-performance flexible electronics	29
On-skin ultrathin and stretchable multifunctional sensor for smart healthcare wearables	29
Highly thermally conductive carbon nanotubes pillared exfoliated graphite/polyimide composites	29
Foldable and washable textile-based OLEDs with a multi-functional near-room-temperature encapsulation layer for smart e-textiles	29
The enhanced ferroelectric properties of flexible Hf0.85Ce0.15O2 thin films based on in situ stress regulation	28
Intelligent upper-limb exoskeleton integrated with soft bioelectronics and deep learning for intention-driven augmentation	28
A temperature responsive adhesive hydrogel for fabrication of flexible electronic sensors	28
Nanowire-assisted freestanding liquid metal thin-film patterns for highly stretchable electrodes on 3D surfaces	28
Single-crystalline-level properties of ultrathin SrRuO3 flexible membranes with wide and clean surface	27
In-situ artificial retina with all-in-one reconfigurable photomemristor networks	27
Deep learning-enabled real-time personal handwriting electronic skin with dynamic thermoregulating ability	27
Self-defined dual charge percolation networks for solution-processed multithreshold transistors	26
Tailored molecular for ultra-stability and biocompatible pseudohalide metal-free perovskite towards X-ray detectors with record sensitivity	26
Room temperature compressed air-stable conductive copper films for flexible electronics	26
Active-type piezoelectric smart textiles with antifouling performance for pathogenic control	26
Stroke-volume-allocation model enabling wearable sensors for vascular age and cardiovascular disease assessment	26
Autonomous self-healing in a stretchable polybutadiene-based urethane and eutectic gallium indium conductive composite	26
Stretchable nanogenerator with micro-nano hierarchical interfaces for self-powered biometric authentication	26
Metallization of leaf-derived lignocellulose scaffolds for high-performance flexible electronics and oligodynamic disinfection	26
Active electronic skin: an interface towards ambient haptic feedback on physical surfaces	24
Stretchable wireless optoelectronic synergistic patches for effective wound healing	24
Multiscale and hierarchical wrinkle enhanced graphene/Ecoflex sensors integrated with human-machine interfaces and cloud-platform	24
LC contact lens sensor for ultrasensitive intraocular pressure monitoring	24
Image-based impedance spectroscopy for printed electronics	24
Strong and high-conductivity hydrogels with all-polymer nanofibrous networks for applications as high-capacitance flexible electrodes	23
Controlling sulfurization of 2D Mo2C crystal for Mo2C/MoS2-based memristor and artificial synapse	23
Toward scalable fabrication of electrochemical paper sensor without surface functionalization	23
An ultra-low power wake-Up timer compatible with n-FET based flexible technologies	23
Single-input single-output multi-touch soft sensor systems using band-pass filters	22
All organic multiferroic magnetoelectric complexes with strong interfacial spin-dipole interaction	22
Author Correction: Resilient conductive membrane synthesized by in-situ polymerisation for wearable non-invasive electronics on moving appendages of cyborg insect	22
The stronger venue for flexible electronics	22
Strategy to minimize bending strain interference for flexible acoustic wave sensing platform	22
Scalable and low-cost fabrication of flexible WS2 photodetectors on polycarbonate	22
Tunable seesaw-like 3D capacitive sensor for force and acceleration sensing	21
Stretchable optoelectronic synapses with ultraviolet to near-infrared perception for retina-inspired computing and vision-adaptive sensing	21
Ion dipole interaction and directional alignment enabled high piezoelectric property polyvinylidene fluoride for flexible electronics	20
Foldable three dimensional neural electrode arrays for simultaneous brain interfacing of cortical surface and intracortical multilayers	20
Multilayer stretchable electronics with designs enabling a compact lateral form	20
A stretchable and adhesive ionic conductor based on polyacrylic acid and deep eutectic solvents	20
Real-time multiaxial strain mapping using computer vision integrated optical sensors	20
Suspension printing of liquid metal in yield-stress fluid for resilient 3D constructs with electromagnetic functions	19
Flexible fully organic indirect detector for megaelectronvolts proton beams	19
Deciphering the superior thermoelectric property of post-treatment-free PEDOT:PSS/IL hybrid by X-ray and neutron scattering characterization	19
A bio-inspired and self-powered triboelectric tactile sensor for underwater vehicle perception	19
Emergence of flexible kesterite solar cells: progress and perspectives	19
Mechanical-robust and recyclable polyimide substrates coordinated with cyclic Ti-oxo cluster for flexible organic solar cells	19
Resilient, environment tolerant and biocompatible electroluminescent devices with enhanced luminance based on compliant and self-adhesive electrodes	18
A fully inkjet-printed disposable gas sensor matrix with molecularly imprinted gas-selective materials	18
Monolithically printed all-organic flexible photosensor active matrix	18
Seeking advanced thermal management for stretchable electronics	18
Bioinspired organic optoelectronic synaptic transistors based on cellulose nanopaper and natural chlorophyll-a for neuromorphic systems	18
UV-laser-machined stretchable multi-modal sensor network for soft robot interaction	17
Integration of body-mounted ultrasoft organic solar cell on cyborg insects with intact mobility	17
Piezoelectric strain sensor with high sensitivity and high stretchability based on kirigami design cutting	16
Wireless, multimodal sensors for continuous measurement of pressure, temperature, and hydration of patients in wheelchair	16
Elastic organic crystals with ultralong phosphorescence for flexible anti-counterfeiting	16
Solution-processed quantum-dot light-emitting diodes combining ultrahigh operational stability, shelf stability, and luminance	15
High responsivity and flexible deep-UV phototransistor based on Ta-doped β-Ga2O3	15
Cu(In,Ga)Se2 based ultrathin solar cells the pathway from lab rigid to large scale flexible technology	15
Advances in healthcare wearable devices	15
Trained laser-patterned carbon as high-performance mechanical sensors	15
On non-von Neumann flexible neuromorphic vision sensors	15
Bringing sensation to prosthetic hands—chronic assessment of implanted thin-film electrodes in humans	15
Large-area flexible organic solar cells	15
Author Correction: Low temperature chemical sintering of inkjet-printed Zn nanoparticles for highly conductive flexible electronic components	15
Full-color-tunable phosphorescence of antimony-doped lead halide single crystal	14
Tailoring threshold voltage of R2R printed SWCNT thin film transistors for realizing 4 bit ALU	14
Molecular ferroelectric/semiconductor interfacial memristors for artificial synapses	14
Ultra-sensitive, highly linear, and hysteresis-free strain sensors enabled by gradient stiffness sliding strategy	14
Combustion-assisted low-temperature ZrO2/SnO2 films for high-performance flexible thin film transistors	14
Self-assembly as a tool to study microscale curvature and strain-dependent magnetic properties	14
Highly conductive polymer electrodes for polymer light-emitting diodes	14
Flexible and transparent piezoelectric loudspeaker	14