Biodegradable Polymeric Materials in Degradable Electronic Devices
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Implication
Literature review evaluates polymeric material strategies across degradable electronic devices, highlighting performance challenges that limit fully functional systems.
Key Points
- Survey recent synthetic and engineering strategies for developing biodegradable polymeric substrates, insulators, conductors, and semiconductors used in degradable electronic devices.
- Categorized polymeric breakdown into physical disintegration (type I degradation) and molecular breakdown into monomers or oligomers (type II degradation).
- Evaluated material engineering approaches and synthetic chemical strategies used to construct distinct functional components of electronic devices.
- Type I disintegration is primarily driven by material processing and engineering, whereas type II degradation relies on targeted chemical synthesis.
- Unconventional degradable linkages capable of sustaining long-range conjugation remain underdeveloped despite their potential to preserve electrical properties.
- Electrical conductivity and mechanical robustness in current biodegradable polymers remain inadequate for complex transient electronic applications.
Cite This Study
Feig et al. (2018) studied this question.