Recently, Ph.D. student Liu Hao from BEBC has published his first author review in Materials Science and Engineering: R: top Reports (IF=24.652) entitled "Paper: A promising material for human-friendly functional wearable electronics".

Based on the rapid development of wearable devices and the urgent demand in the field of medical treatment, rehabilitation, entertainment and so on, this review presents a state-of-the-art introduction of paper-based electronics from multiple perspectives. It summarizes developing trends of paper-based electronics in the emerging wearable applications and shows in-depth analysis in many aspects from the raw material selection, preparation process, to applications in recent years. At the same time, it points out the future challenges of paper based flexible electronics. This paper has important reference value in soft materials, flexible electronics, wearable technology and other research fields.

As the first paper of BEBC published in 2017, this work has been received and published by Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, one of the top journals in the field of material science (published only 13 articles per year). In this regard, Hao said, “This paper is just a good start for BEBC. It is the represent of BEBC’s advanced level of research. And it’s the collaboration of the center. Thanks for the BEBC and the help of all co-authors. We all witnessed that our BEBC has kept growing in the last year and it will become stronger. I hope everyone will make progress in the new year and keep breaking his/her own limits”.