Silk Fibroin: Silk Fibroin for Flexible Electronic Devices (Adv. Mater. 22/2016)

Flexible electronic devices are necessary for applications involving unconventional interfaces, such as soft and curved biological systems, in which traditional silicon-based electronics confront a mechanical mismatch. Silk offers exquisite mechanical, optical, and electrical properties that are advantageous toward the development of next-generation biocompatible electronic devices. On page 4250, X. Chen and co-workers summarize the recent progress in the design and integration of silk-based flexible electronic devices where the silk materials can serve not only as passive but also as active components.