Conception of Stretchable Resistive Memory Devices Based on Nanostructure‐Controlled Carbohydrate‐ block‐Polyisoprene Block Copolymers

Abstract

It is discovered that the memory‐type behaviors of novel carbohydrate‐ block‐polyisoprene (MH‐ b‐PI) block copolymers‐based devices, including write‐once‐read‐many‐times, Flash, and dynamic‐random‐access‐memory, can be easily controlled by the self‐assembly nanostructures (vertical cylinder, horizontal cylinder, and order‐packed sphere), in which the MH and PI blocks, respectively, provide the charge‐trapping and stretchable function. With increasing the flexible PI block length, the stretchability of the designed copolymers can be significantly improved up to 100% without forming cracks. Thus, intrinsically stretchable resistive memory devices (polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS)/carbon nanotubes(CNTs)/MH‐ b‐PI thin film/Al) using the MH‐ b‐PI thin film as an active layer is successfully fabricated and that using the MH‐ b‐PI _12.6k under 100% strain exhibits an excellent ON/OFF current ratio of over 10 ⁶ (reading at −1 V) with stable V _set around −2 V. Furthermore, the endurance characteristics can be maintained over 500 cycles upon 40% strain. This work establishes and represents a novel avenue for the design of green carbohydrate‐derived and stretchable memory materials.