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  • Nanowire Assemblies for Fle...
    Wang, Jin‐Long; Hassan, Muhammad; Liu, Jian‐Wei; Yu, Shu‐Hong

    Advanced materials (Weinheim) 30, Issue: 48
    Journal Article

    The fabrication of nanowire (NW)‐based flexible electronics including wearable energy storage devices, flexible displays, electrical sensors, and health monitors has received great attention both in fundamental research and market requirements in our daily lives. Other than a disordered state after synthesis, NWs with designed and hierarchical structures would not only optimize the intrinsic performance, but also create new physical and chemical properties, and integration of individual NWs into well‐defined structures over large areas is one of the most promising strategies to optimize the performance of NW‐based flexible electronics. Here, the recent developments and achievements made in the field of flexible electronics composed of integrated NW structures are presented. The different assembly strategies for the construction of 1D, 2D, and 3D NW assemblies, especially the NW coassembly process for 2D NW assemblies, are comprehensively discussed. The improvements of different NW assemblies on flexible electronics structure and performance are described in detail to elucidate the advantages of well‐defined NW assemblies. Finally, a short summary and outlook for future challenges and perspectives in this field are presented. Directional assembly of nanowires into 1D, 2D, and 3D assemblies toward flexible electronic devices benefits many potential applications. 1D assemblies with fiber structures can be used as flexible electronics for textiles, 2D assemblies can be used as transparent electrodes or units for logic circuits, and 3D assemblies can be used in the fabrication of pressure sensors or high‐performance energy‐storage devices.