The problem is that silicon, the base material of the electronics industry, is brittle.
Silicon is the basic material of semiconductor electronics, and therefore, there is huge infrastructure and know-how available for its production and processing.
Smart textiles are possible through three developments: "(i) new types of textile fibres and structures such as conductive material; (ii) miniaturisation of electronics; and (iii) wireless tech that enables technology to be wearable and communicating at the same time" (Berglin 2013, p. 7).
For this reason the desire for improving thermal properties of materials for electronics component parts is getting stronger and the material performance has become a critical design consideration for packages.
As an important functional material for electronics and optoelectronics, zinc sulfide (ZnS) was one of the first semiconductor materials discovered few decades ago.
Considering other intercalants in a graphene-based superlattice using a layer by layer growth, we anticipate that this type of superlattice may lead to a future class of man-made materials for electronics.
Carbon nanotubes have been first used as additives to various structural materials for electronics, optics, plastics, and other materials of nanotechnology fields.
With the noticeable growing rate of electronics, materials with good flexibility and high conductivity that can provide electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding with minimal thickness are urgently needed.
It is vital to note here that the production of epitaxial uniform multilayer MXene films is a necessary and crucial first step to applying this novel and unique family of materials in the field of electronics, optoelectronics and photonics.
Both the European Union and the US have regulations governing materials used in the components of electronics, but there's currently very little regulation of any chemicals coating those components.
