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Material strategies for on-demand smart transient electronics

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Emerging transient electronics capable of complete physical and chemical disintegration are derived from advanced materials and device design strategies. The area of exploring on-demand smart transient electronics has seen continuous development, allowing for the degradation process to be triggered or controlled through an instantaneous stimulus, thus offering significant potential in data security, undetectable spying, and bioresorbable electronics applications. In this article, we summarize recent progress in the design and strategies of on-demand smart transient electronics and emphasize the basic principles of selecting, processing, and integrating materials. After an introduction to the history and properties of triggered transient electronics, we discuss on-demand smart transient electronics based on their triggering stimuli, strategies for designing thermal, optical, or electrical triggers, and future development trends and challenges.

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Acknowledgment

C.Y. You and H.N. Zhao contributed equally to this work. Q.L. Guo and YF. Mei are the corresponding authors. This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61975035 and 51602056), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (17JC1401700), the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China (2015ZX02102-003), the Program of Shanghai Academic Research Leader (19XD1400600), Shandong University Multi-disciplinary Research and Innovation Team of Young Scholars (No. 2020QNQT015), and the Qilu Young Scholar Program of Shandong University.

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  1. Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, China

    Chunyu You

  2. School of Microelectronics, Center of Nanoelectronics, Shandong University, China

    Haonan Zhao

  3. School of Microelectronics, Center of Nanoelectronics, Shandong University, China

    Qinglei Guo

  4. Department of Materials Science, State Key Laboratory of ASIC and Systems, Fudan University, China

    Yongfeng Mei

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You, C., Zhao, H., Guo, Q. et al. Material strategies for on-demand smart transient electronics. MRS Bulletin 45, 129–134 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2020.20

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