Progress in the Development of Flexible Devices Utilizing Protein Nanomaterials

Flexible devices are soft, lightweight, and portable, making them suitable for large-area applications. These features significantly expand the scope of electronic devices and demonstrate their unique value in various fields, including smart wearable devices, medical and health monitoring, human–com...

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Main Authors: Chunhong Zhang, Chenxi Zhang, Yongchun Liu
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-02-01
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description Flexible devices are soft, lightweight, and portable, making them suitable for large-area applications. These features significantly expand the scope of electronic devices and demonstrate their unique value in various fields, including smart wearable devices, medical and health monitoring, human–computer interaction, and brain–computer interfaces. Protein materials, due to their unique molecular structure, biological properties, sustainability, self-assembly ability, and good biocompatibility, can be applied in electronic devices to significantly enhance the sensitivity, stability, mechanical strength, energy density, and conductivity of the devices. Protein-based flexible devices have become an important research direction in the fields of bioelectronics and smart wearables, providing new material support for the development of more environmentally friendly and reliable flexible electronics. Currently, many proteins, such as silk fibroin, collagen, ferritin, and so on, have been used in biosensors, memristors, energy storage devices, and power generation devices. Therefore, in this paper, we provide an overview of related research in the field of protein-based flexible devices, including the concept and characteristics of protein-based flexible devices, fabrication materials, fabrication processes, characterization, and evaluation, and we point out the future development direction of protein-based flexible devices.
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spelling doaj-art-6fdecfcca2734638b248751e1bd4aff12025-08-20T02:59:15ZengMDPI AGNanomaterials2079-49912025-02-0115536710.3390/nano15050367Progress in the Development of Flexible Devices Utilizing Protein NanomaterialsChunhong Zhang0Chenxi Zhang1Yongchun Liu2Xi’an Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Intelligent Process, School of Automation, Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, ChinaXi’an Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Intelligent Process, School of Automation, Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710121, ChinaKey Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, ChinaFlexible devices are soft, lightweight, and portable, making them suitable for large-area applications. These features significantly expand the scope of electronic devices and demonstrate their unique value in various fields, including smart wearable devices, medical and health monitoring, human–computer interaction, and brain–computer interfaces. Protein materials, due to their unique molecular structure, biological properties, sustainability, self-assembly ability, and good biocompatibility, can be applied in electronic devices to significantly enhance the sensitivity, stability, mechanical strength, energy density, and conductivity of the devices. Protein-based flexible devices have become an important research direction in the fields of bioelectronics and smart wearables, providing new material support for the development of more environmentally friendly and reliable flexible electronics. Currently, many proteins, such as silk fibroin, collagen, ferritin, and so on, have been used in biosensors, memristors, energy storage devices, and power generation devices. Therefore, in this paper, we provide an overview of related research in the field of protein-based flexible devices, including the concept and characteristics of protein-based flexible devices, fabrication materials, fabrication processes, characterization, and evaluation, and we point out the future development direction of protein-based flexible devices.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/15/5/367proteinnanomaterialsflexible devicesensors
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Progress in the Development of Flexible Devices Utilizing Protein Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials
protein
nanomaterials
flexible device
sensors
title Progress in the Development of Flexible Devices Utilizing Protein Nanomaterials
title_full Progress in the Development of Flexible Devices Utilizing Protein Nanomaterials
title_fullStr Progress in the Development of Flexible Devices Utilizing Protein Nanomaterials
title_full_unstemmed Progress in the Development of Flexible Devices Utilizing Protein Nanomaterials
title_short Progress in the Development of Flexible Devices Utilizing Protein Nanomaterials
title_sort progress in the development of flexible devices utilizing protein nanomaterials
topic protein
nanomaterials
flexible device
sensors
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