ABSTRACT
There is a growing demand for high-performance flexible electronics and sensors for emerging applications like wearable electronics and Internet of Things, where data can be collected in real time and processed in situ with low power and high speed. Carbon nanotube has been widely considered as a superior candidate for flexible electronics due to its outstanding electrical and mechanical properties. Tremendous progress has been made in this field in the past decades, while there are still several critical challenges in order to bring carbon nanotube-based flexible electronics into real applications. In this chapter, we present a comprehensive review on the recent advance in the field of carbon nanotube electronics and sensors, including material purification, device engineering, digital circuits' demonstrations, and system integration. We also elaborate on the existing challenges and give a perspective on future research toward fully integrated flexible nanosystems.
