In the high-tech and intelligent era of the 21st century,
as one
of the important electronic devices, wearable electronic products
can effectively improve work efficiency and quality of life. Since
memristors have broad application prospects in information storage,
neural synapses, neural networks, neuromorphic computation, electronic
skin (e-skin), and brain-like chips, the development of flexible electronic
devices based on memristors has received extensive attention. However,
the incompatibility between the flexible substrate and the functional
layer, the performance degradation after repeated bending, and the
instability of devices in the biological environment greatly limit
the commercial application of flexible memristors. In this review,
the characteristics and applications of different types of functional
layer nanomaterial-based memristors are first analyzed, and the preparation
and integration of the devices are discussed. Then the development
bottleneck of flexible memristors is introduced, and corresponding
solutions are proposed. Finally, we look forward to the development
of intelligent flexible memristors and point out the direction for
the development of wearable electronic products based on flexible
memristors, which promotes research of flexible memristors in artificial
intelligence.