From the Back Cover
This third volume in the Advanced Nanocarbon Materials series covers the topic of flexible electronics both from a materials and an applications perspective. Comprehensive in its scope, the monograph is focussed on carbon-based materials, with a special focus on the generation and properties of 2D materials. It also presents carbon modifications and derivatives, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide and diamonds.
In terms of the topical applications covered these include, but are not limited to, flexible displays, organic electronics, transistors, integrated circuits, semiconductors and solar cells. These offer perspectives for today's energy and healthcare challenges, such as electrochemical energy storage and wearable devices. Finally, a section on fundamental properties and characterization approaches of flexible electronics rounds off the book.
Each contribution points out the importance of the structure-function relationship for the target-oriented fabrication of electronic devices, enabling the design of complex components.
Prof. Paolo Samorì is Distinguished Professor (PRCE) in Physical Chemistry at the Université de Strasbourg and Director of the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires. His research interests include nanochemistry, supramolecular sciences, materials chemistry, and Scanning Probe Microscopies with a specific focus on graphene and other 2D materials as well as functional organic/polymeric and hybrid nanomaterials for application in opto-electronics, energy and sensing. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), Member of the Academia Europaea and Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He has received numerous awards, including the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists in 2001, the Vincenzo Caglioti award in 2006 granted by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the "Nicolò Copernico" award in 2009 (Italy), the ERC Starting Grant (2010), the CNRS Silver Medal in 2012, the Spanish-French "Catalán-Sabatier" Prize (2017) and the German-French "Georg Wittig - Victor Grignard" Prize (2017), the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award (2018) and the EURASC Blaise Pascal Medal (2018).
Vincenzo Palermo holds a joint position as research director of CNR (Bologna, Italy) and research professor at Chalmers University of Technology (Göteborg, Sweden). He is currently the vice-director of the Graphene Flagship, one of the largest science projects ever launched in Europe, coordinating more than 150 partners located in twenty-three countries. He has been the coordinator of several European research projects, and member of the scientific committee of EUROGRAPHENE programme. He is actively involved in science dissemination, giving seminars to high-school students and laymen on the interplay between science and history. He is columnist of the science magazine SAPERE, and has published several articles for general audience and two books on the life and science of Albert Einstein and of Isaac Newton. He has won the Lecturer Award for Excellence of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), the Research Award of the Italian Society of Chemistry (SCI) and the Science dissemination awards of the Italian book association, for its articles on the interplay between science and history.
