More information: Jaepyo Jang et al, Reconfigurable assembly of self-healing stretchable transistors and circuits for integrated systems, Nature Electronics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01389-z ...

When aiming for stretchable, health-monitoring, skin-like sensor sheets, materials with demanding properties are required: they need to be flexible, biocompatible, and electrically conductive at the ...

A stretchable and bendable transistor has been made by researchers in the US by applying the principles of kirigami – the Japanese art of paper cutting – to graphene. The researchers have also made ...

The stretchable transistors are made from semiconducting carbon nanotubes and soft elastic materials that sandwich the nanotubes. Bao’s team also developed the patterning chemistry in all the ...

Stretchable elastic synaptic transistors for neurologically integrated soft engineering systems. Science Advances , 2019; 5 (10): eaax4961 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax4961 Cite This Page : ...

Using the stretchable metal, Wagner’s group connected together rigid “islands” of silicon transistors. Although the silicon itself couldn’t stretch, the entire circuit could.

So far, many types of stretchable electronic devices have been developed including stretchable transistors, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), supercapacitors, photodetectors and sensors.

The next step beyond flexible electronics is making components that stretch. Researchers can already stretch diodes and transistors, and circuit boards are next.

The transistors and circuits are patterned onto a stretchable substrate, along with stretchable semiconductor, conductor, and dielectric material. “This is many years of material and engineering ...