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Papers

(The median citation count of npj Flexible Electronics is 13. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Advances in healthcare wearable devices	315
Advances in flexible organic field-effect transistors and their applications for flexible electronics	256
Recent developments of advanced micro-supercapacitors: design, fabrication and applications	176
On-skin ultrathin and stretchable multifunctional sensor for smart healthcare wearables	100
Fully printed origami thermoelectric generators for energy-harvesting	94
Large-area flexible organic solar cells	80
Wearable sensors for telehealth based on emerging materials and nanoarchitectonics	69
Recent advanced applications of ion-gel in ionic-gated transistor	69
A temperature responsive adhesive hydrogel for fabrication of flexible electronic sensors	68
Flexible microfluidic nanoplasmonic sensors for refreshable and portable recognition of sweat biochemical fingerprint	67
A soft and stretchable electronics using laser-induced graphene on polyimide/PDMS composite substrate	65
A stretchable and adhesive ionic conductor based on polyacrylic acid and deep eutectic solvents	62
Piezoelectric strain sensor with high sensitivity and high stretchability based on kirigami design cutting	62
Stretchable transparent electrodes for conformable wearable organic photovoltaic devices	60
All-weather, natural silent speech recognition via machine-learning-assisted tattoo-like electronics	58
Green flexible electronics based on starch	56
Microstructured capacitive sensor with broad detection range and long-term stability for human activity detection	56
Direct roll transfer printed silicon nanoribbon arrays based high-performance flexible electronics	53
Flexible thermoelectric generator with liquid metal interconnects and low thermal conductivity silicone filler	52
Multi-directionally wrinkle-able textile OLEDs for clothing-type displays	52
Flexible Miniaturized Sensor Technologies for Long-Term Physiological Monitoring	50
Fluoropolymer-based organic memristor with multifunctionality for flexible neural network system	49
Fully solution processed liquid metal features as highly conductive and ultrastretchable conductors	49
Facile fabrication of paper-based flexible thermoelectric generator	48
Highly thermally conductive carbon nanotubes pillared exfoliated graphite/polyimide composites	47

Seeking advanced thermal management for stretchable electronics	47
High responsivity and flexible deep-UV phototransistor based on Ta-doped β-Ga2O3	46
Foldable and washable textile-based OLEDs with a multi-functional near-room-temperature encapsulation layer for smart e-textiles	45
Electrospun bundled carbon nanofibers for skin-inspired tactile sensing, proprioception and gesture tracking applications	45
Wearable EEG electronics for a Brain–AI Closed-Loop System to enhance autonomous machine decision-making	44
A bio-inspired and self-powered triboelectric tactile sensor for underwater vehicle perception	44
Rupture stress of liquid metal nanoparticles and their applications in stretchable conductors and dielectrics	44
Hydrogel-based flexible materials for diabetes diagnosis, treatment, and management	41
An integrated and robust plant pulse monitoring system based on biomimetic wearable sensor	41
Elastic organic crystals with ultralong phosphorescence for flexible anti-counterfeiting	39
Highly efficient fiber-shaped organic solar cells toward wearable flexible electronics	38
A review of sampling, energy supply and intelligent monitoring for long-term sweat sensors	38
Multifunctional biomimetic tactile system via a stick-slip sensing strategy for human–machine interactions	37
An ultralight, flexible, and biocompatible all-fiber motion sensor for artificial intelligence wearable electronics	36
Wearable battery-free theranostic dental patch for wireless intraoral sensing and drug delivery	35
Flexible and tandem quantum-dot light-emitting diodes with individually addressable red/green/blue emission	35
Bamboo-inspired cell-scale assembly for energy device applications	35
Multiscale and hierarchical wrinkle enhanced graphene/Ecoflex sensors integrated with human-machine interfaces and cloud-platform	35
Deciphering the superior thermoelectric property of post-treatment-free PEDOT:PSS/IL hybrid by X-ray and neutron scattering characterization	34
Miura-ori enabled stretchable circuit boards	34
High sensitivity and broad linearity range pressure sensor based on hierarchical in-situ filling porous structure	34
Transparent neural implantable devices: a comprehensive review of challenges and progress	32
Aerosol jet printed capacitive strain gauge for soft structural materials	32
Vertical graphene on flexible substrate, overcoming limits of crack-based resistive strain sensors	32
Ultra-high temperature tolerant flexible transparent electrode with embedded silver nanowires bundle micromesh for electrical heater	31
Wireless, multimodal sensors for continuous measurement of pressure, temperature, and hydration of patients in wheelchair	30
Nondestructive identification of softness via bioinspired multisensory electronic skins integrated on a robotic hand	30
Garment embedded sweat-activated batteries in wearable electronics for continuous sweat monitoring	29
Bioinspired organic optoelectronic synaptic transistors based on cellulose nanopaper and natural chlorophyll-a for neuromorphic systems	29
Suspension printing of liquid metal in yield-stress fluid for resilient 3D constructs with electromagnetic functions	29
Skin-integrated stretchable actuators toward skin-compatible haptic feedback and closed-loop human-machine interactions	29
Antioxidant high-conductivity copper paste for low-cost flexible printed electronics	29
Nanowire-assisted freestanding liquid metal thin-film patterns for highly stretchable electrodes on 3D surfaces	29
Stretchable array electromyography sensor with graph neural network for static and dynamic gestures recognition system	28
Deep learning-enabled real-time personal handwriting electronic skin with dynamic thermoregulating ability	28
Weave-pattern-dependent fabric piezoelectric pressure sensors based on polyvinylidene fluoride nanofibers electrospun with 50 nozzles	27
Highly pixelated, untethered tactile interfaces for an ultra-flexible on-skin telehaptic system	27
Leaf-meridian bio-inspired nanofibrous electronics with uniform distributed microgrid and 3D multi-level structure for wearable applications	27
Fibrillary gelation and dedoping of PEDOT:PSS fibers for interdigitated organic electrochemical transistors and circuits	27
Solution processed low power organic field-effect transistor bio-chemical sensor of high transconductance efficiency	26
Ultrahigh-transparency and pressure-sensitive iontronic device for tactile intelligence	25
3D printed leech-inspired origami dry electrodes for electrophysiology sensing robots	25
Fully 3D-printed organic electrochemical transistors	25
An artificial neuromorphic somatosensory system with spatio-temporal tactile perception and feedback functions	25
Cooperative control of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy via crystal structure and orientation in freestanding SrRuO3 membranes	25
Flexible and transparent piezoelectric loudspeaker	25
Integration of body-mounted ultrasoft organic solar cell on cyborg insects with intact mobility	25
Scalable and low-cost fabrication of flexible WS2 photodetectors on polycarbonate	24
Ultrastretchable and wearable conductive multifilament enabled by buckled polypyrrole structure in parallel	24
Fully paper-integrated hydrophobic and air permeable piezoresistive sensors for high-humidity and underwater wearable motion monitoring	24

Water stable and matrix addressable OLED fiber textiles for wearable displays with large emission area	24
Recent progress in solution-processed flexible organic photovoltaics	23
Biocompatible and breathable healthcare electronics with sensing performances and photothermal antibacterial effect for motion-detecting	23
Toward scalable fabrication of electrochemical paper sensor without surface functionalization	22
A new route to fabricate flexible, breathable composites with advanced thermal management capability for wearable electronics	22
Flexible organic integrated electronics for self-powered multiplexed ocular monitoring	22
Short-wave infrared organic phototransistors with strong infrared-absorbing polytriarylamine by electron-transfer doping	22
Ultra-stable and tough bioinspired crack-based tactile sensor for small legged robots	21
Low temperature chemical sintering of inkjet-printed Zn nanoparticles for highly conductive flexible electronic components	21
Mechanical-robust and recyclable polyimide substrates coordinated with cyclic Ti-oxo cluster for flexible organic solar cells	21
UV-laser-machined stretchable multi-modal sensor network for soft robot interaction	21
Moldable and transferrable conductive nanocomposites for epidermal electronics	20
Recent advances in flexible noninvasive electrodes for surface electromyography acquisition	20
Strenuous exercise-tolerance stretchable dry electrodes for continuous multi-channel electrophysiological monitoring	20
Telemedicine platform for health assessment remotely by an integrated nanoarchitectonics FePS3/rGO and Ti3C2-based wearable device	20
Biodegradable germanium electronics for integrated biosensing of physiological signals	20
Monolithically printed all-organic flexible photosensor active matrix	20
Multi-parameter e-skin based on biomimetic mechanoreceptors and stress field sensing	20
A fully inkjet-printed disposable gas sensor matrix with molecularly imprinted gas-selective materials	19
Soft, stretchable thermal protective substrates for wearable electronics	19
Molecular ferroelectric/semiconductor interfacial memristors for artificial synapses	19
Flexible kesterite thin-film solar cells under stress	19
Flexible Hall sensor made of laser-scribed graphene	19
Tunable seesaw-like 3D capacitive sensor for force and acceleration sensing	19
Large-scale programmable assembly of functional micro-components for advanced electronics via light-regulated adhesion and polymer growth	19
Highly sensitive active-powering pressure sensor enabled by integration of double-rough surface hydrogel and flexible batteries	19
Liquid-metal micro-networks with strain-induced conductivity for soft electronics and robotic skin	18
Soft wearable flexible bioelectronics integrated with an ankle-foot exoskeleton for estimation of metabolic costs and physical effort	18
Skin-interfaced colorimetric microfluidic devices for on-demand sweat analysis	18
Adhesive and cohesive force matters in deformable batteries	17
Balancing efficiency and transparency in organic transparent photovoltaics	17
Foldable three dimensional neural electrode arrays for simultaneous brain interfacing of cortical surface and intracortical multilayers	17
Flexible micro-LED display and its application in Gbps multi-channel visible light communication	17
Controlling sulfurization of 2D Mo2C crystal for Mo2C/MoS2-based memristor and artificial synapse	16
Emergence of flexible kesterite solar cells: progress and perspectives	16
Lightweight and flexible Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar minimodules: toward 20% photovoltaic efficiency and beyond	16
Flexible computational photodetectors for self-powered activity sensing	16
Fiber-based quantum-dot pulse oximetry for wearable health monitoring with high wavelength selectivity and photoplethysmogram sensitivity	15
Single-input single-output multi-touch soft sensor systems using band-pass filters	15
Stability improvement mechanism due to less charge accumulation in ternary polymer solar cells	15
Thermoplastic elastomer enhanced interface adhesion and bending durability for flexible organic solar cells	15
All-natural phyllosilicate-polysaccharide triboelectric sensor for machine learning-assisted human motion prediction	15
All inkjet-printed perovskite-based bolometers	15
Flexible unimodal strain sensors for human motion detection and differentiation	15
Tough, rapid self-recovery and responsive organogel-based ionotronic for intelligent continuous passive motion system	15
Zinc hybrid sintering for printed transient sensors and wireless electronics	15
On the accurate characterization of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes for display applications	14
Spider-inspired tunable mechanosensor for biomedical applications	14
A soft magnetoelectric finger for robots’ multidirectional tactile perception in non-visual recognition environments	14
Adhesive free, conformable and washable carbon nanotube fabric electrodes for biosensing	14
Specific behavior of transition metal chloride complexes for achieving giant ionic thermoelectric properties	14
Porous perovskite films integrated with Au–Pt nanowire-based electrodes for highly flexible large-area photodetectors	14
Full-color-tunable phosphorescence of antimony-doped lead halide single crystal	14
Intrinsically flexible all-carbon-nanotube electronics enabled by a hybrid organic–inorganic gate dielectric	13
Solution process formation of high performance, stable nanostructured transparent metal electrodes via displacement-diffusion-etch process	13
Broadband mechanoresponsive liquid metal sensors	13
Controllably grown single-crystal films as flexoelectric nanogenerators for continuous direct current output	13
Soft, full Wheatstone bridge 3D pressure sensors for cardiovascular monitoring	13
Wearable bioelectronics fabricated in situ on skins	13
A ternary heterogeneous hydrogel with strength elements for resilient, self-healing, and recyclable epidermal electronics	13