Flexible
see-through displays are considered to be the next generation
smart display, providing improved information flow, safety, situational
awareness, and overall user experience in smart windows, automotive
displays, glass-form biomedical displays, and augmented reality systems.
2D titanium carbides (MXenes) are promising material as electrodes
of the transparent and flexible displays due to their high transparency,
metallic conductivity, and flexibility. However, current MXene-based
devices have insufficient air stability and lack engineering schemes
to develop matrix-addressable display forms with sufficient pixels
to display information. Here, we develop an ultraflexible and environmentally
stable MXene-based organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display by
combining high performance MXene electrodes, flexible OLEDs, and ultrathin
and functional encapsulation systems. The MXene material was synthesized
and used to fabricate a highly reliable MXene-based OLED that can
stably operate in air condition for over 2000 h, endure repetitive
bending deformation of 1.5 mm radius, and maintain environmental stability
for 6 h when exposed to wet surroundings. The RGB MXene-based OLEDs
were fabricated, (1691 cd m–2 at 40.4 mA cm–2 for red, 1377 cd m–2 at 4.26 mA
cm–2 for green, and 1475 cd m–2 at 18.6 mA cm–2 for blue) and a matrix-addressable
transparent OLED display was demonstrated that could display letters
and shapes.