Siegfrid Bauer: Materials for flexible and conformable electronics

«The future is flexible»: This also means that future electronics is expected to be flexible, so that devices can easily be rolled or bent. In his talk Siegfrid Bauer from the University of Linz will outline how the ingenious combination of energy and entropy elasticity leads to new functionalities. Concepts for stretchable piezoelec-trics, batteries, optical waveguides and applications of such systems will be used to illustrate in detail the numerous possibilities for materials research in conformable electronics.