Flexible Nanodevices: “Self-Peel-Off” Transfer Produces Ultrathin Polyvinylidene-Fluoride-Based Flexible Nanodevices (Adv. Sci. 4/2017)

Flexible Nanodevices: “Self‐Peel‐Off” Transfer Produces Ultrathin Polyvinylidene‐Fluoride‐Based Flexible Nanodevices (Adv. Sci. 4/2017)

“Self‐Peel‐Off” Transfer Produces Ultrathin Polyvinylidene‐Fluoride‐Based Flexible Nanodevices

Here, a new strategy, self-peel-off transfer, for the preparation of ultrathin flexible nanodevices made from polyvinylidene-fluoride (PVDF) is reported. In this process, a functional pattern of nanoparticles is transferred via peeling from a temporary substrate to the final PVDF film. This peeling process takes advantage of the differences in the work of adhesion between the various layers (th...

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Yanlong Tai and Gilles Lubineau describe the mechanism of the “self-peel-off” transfer (SPOT) technique via the temperatureand humidity-sensitive properties of both polyvinylidene-fluoride (PVDF) and nanomaterials in article number 1600370. SPOT is a promising strategy to fabricate flexible, ultrathin, and light-weighted PVDFbased nanodevices. The authors acknowledge Xavier Pita, scientific Ill...

Flexible Electrodes: Paper‐Based Electrodes for Flexible Energy Storage Devices (Adv. Sci. 7/2017)

Self-Replicating DNA Nanostructures: Autocatalytic Nanodevices derived from Catalytic Nanodevices

This paper describes some general techniques for transforming the design of a class of catalytic DNA nanodevices into the design for autocatalytic DNA nanodevices. Our techniques are particularly applicable to catalytic DNA nanodevices that act as detectors, where we would like their response to be sped up via autocatalytic behavior. We provide an example of this general scheme for design of au...