Graphene Flexible Electronics and Optoelectronics

石墨烯具有许多记录性质。它像塑料一样透明（或比塑料更透明），但导热性和导电性比任何金属都好，它是一种弹性薄膜，表现为不透水膜，化学惰性和稳定。因此，它是生产下一代透明导体的理想材料。可以获得薄且柔性的基于石墨烯的电子元件并进行模块化集成，并且可以组装和分发薄的便携式设备。石墨烯可以承受剧烈的机械变形，例如，它可以折叠而不会破裂。可折叠设备可以想象，连同丰富的新形式因素，具有创新的概念集成和分布。目前，电子设备（例如，移动电话）的实现需要通过许多技术获得的各种组件的组装。石墨烯通过在同一材料中包含不同的特性，可以为实现几乎任何器件组件提供一个全面的技术平台，包括晶体管、电池、光电组件、光伏电池、（光）探测器、超快激光器、生物和物理化学传感器等。设备制造范式的这种变化将彻底改变全球工业。通过利用优秀的研究人员和制造商的协同作用，英国将有机会在全球信息和通信技术产业中重新获得突出地位。我们提出了一个创新和冒险的研究计划，重点是应用，独特地将这一愿景转化为现实。我们的研究联盟由工程师领导，汇集了一个多元化的团队，在石墨烯、碳电子、天线、可穿戴通信、电池和超级电容器方面拥有世界领先的专业知识。我们与行业需求紧密结合，并作为项目合作伙伴参与潜在用户。我们将补充并希望参与石墨烯全球研究和技术中心的其他组成部分，以及其他相关倡议。目前和未来的联系将使英国能够显著地利用我们财团的任何投资，并将使英国plc受益。该计划包括围绕柔性和节能（光电）电子的核心挑战建立的相关活动，石墨烯是一个独特的使能平台。这将通过四个主题来实现。T1：生长、转移、印花；T2:能源;T3:连接;T4:探测器。最终目标是在柔性/透明基板上开发“石墨烯增强”智能集成设备，具有自主工作和无线连接所需的能量存储能力。我们的愿景是将石墨烯从原始的潜力状态发展到可以彻底改变柔性，可穿戴和透明（光电）电子产品的地步，为英国在创新和开发方面带来多方面的回报。石墨烯在成本优势、属性和性能的独特性方面都有优势。它将使廉价、能源自主和一次性的设备和通信系统集成在透明和柔性的表面上，应用于智能家居、工业过程、环境监测、个人医疗保健等领域。这将带来最终的设备可穿戴性、新的用户界面和新的交互范例，并在通信、游戏、媒体、社交网络、体育和健康领域带来新的机遇。通过实现柔性（光电）电子，石墨烯将允许利用现有的知识基础和从事有机电子（有机led，导电聚合物，可印刷电子）的公司的基础设施，以及收集和支持许多分布式技术能力的独特协同框架。

Graphene has many record properties. It is transparent like (or better than) plastic, but conducts heat and electricity better than any metal, it is an elastic thin film, behaves as an impermeable membrane, and it is chemically inert and stable. Thus it is ideal for the production of next generation transparent conductors. Thin and flexible graphene-based electronic components may be obtained and modularly integrated, and thin portable devices may be assembled and distributed. Graphene can withstand dramatic mechanical deformation, for instance it can be folded without breaking. Foldable devices can be imagined, together with a wealth of new form factors, with innovative concepts of integration and distribution. At present, the realisation of an electronic device (such as, e.g., a mobile phone) requires the assembly of a variety of components obtained by many technologies. Graphene, by including different properties within the same material, can offer the opportunity to build a comprehensive technological platform for the realisation of almost any device component, including transistors, batteries, optoelectronic components, photovoltaic cells, (photo)detectors, ultrafast lasers, bio- and physico-chemical sensors, etc. Such change in the paradigm of device manufacturing would revolutionise the global industry. UK will have the chance to re-acquire a prominent position within the global Information and Communication Technology industry, by exploiting the synergy of excellent researchers and manufacturers. We propose a programme of innovative and adventurous research, with an emphasis on applications, uniquely placed to translate this vision into reality. Our research consortium, led by engineers, brings together a diverse team with world-leading expertise in graphene, carbon electronics, antennas, wearable communications, batteries and supercapacitors. We have strong alignment with industry needs and engage as project partners potential users. We will complement and wish to engage with other components of the graphene global research and technology hub, and other relevant initiatives. The present and future links will allow UK to significantly leverage any investment in our consortium and will benefit UK plc. The programme consists of related activities built around the central challenge of flexible and energy efficient (opto)electronics, for which graphene is a unique enabling platform. This will be achieved through four main themes. T1: growth, transfer and printing; T2: energy; T3: connectivity; T4: detectors. The final aim is to develop "graphene-augmented" smart integrated devices on flexible/transparent substrates, with the necessary energy storage capability to work autonomously and wireless connected. Our vision is to take graphene from a state of raw potential to a point where it can revolutionise flexible, wearable and transparent (opto)electronics, with a manifold return for UK, in innovation and exploitation. Graphene has benefits both in terms of cost-advantage, and uniqueness of attributes and performance. It will enable cheap, energy autonomous and disposable devices and communication systems, integrated in transparent and flexible surfaces, with application to smart homes, industrial processes, environmental monitoring, personal healthcare and more. This will lead to ultimate device wearability, new user interfaces and novel interaction paradigms, with new opportunities in communication, gaming, media, social networking, sport and wellness. By enabling flexible (opto)electronics, graphene will allow the exploitation of the existing knowledge base and infrastructure of companies working on organic electronics (organic LEDs, conductive polymers, printable electronics), and a unique synergistic framework for collecting and underpinning many distributed technical competences.