journal article·2022-05Open access

Highly stretchable organic electrochemical transistors with strain-resistant performance

Jianhua Chen, Wei Huang, Ding Zheng, Zhaoqian Xie, Xinming Zhuang, Dan Zhao, Yao Chen, Ning Su, Hongming Chen, Robert M. Pankow, Zhan Gao, Junsheng Yu, Xugang Guo, Yuhua Cheng, Joseph Strzalka, Xinge Yu, Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti

Nature Materials· Volume 21· Issue 5

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