Developing Robust, high-resolution, high-performance and low-cost printing technologies for making flexible and stretchable electronics and devices

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Electronics or devices, which are flexible, wearable, rollable and/or foldable, will bring us completely different user experience and even change the way of our life. Making flexible and stretchable electronics and devices has become an important direction of advanced manufacturing. Recent advances in materials and manufacturing processes have enabled many new applications of flexible electronics/devices, for example, electronic paper, curved screens, foldable or rollable displays, flexible solar cells, tunable lens, artificial muscles, skin sensors and wearable biomedical devices for health monitoring. The market demand for flexible, printed, and organic electronics dramatically increases. Currently the global market is over $1B, and will grow up to $45B by 2016.