Networks of carbon nanotubes find use in flexible displays
Written by admin on July 25th, 2008 in gadgets.
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 25th 2008 at 12:54AM
Carbon nanotubes may very well kill you (okay, so that’s very much a stretch), but you’ll have a hard time convincing the dutiful scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to stop their promising research. Put simply (or as simply as possible), said researchers have discovered that “networks of single-walled carbon nanotubes printed onto bendable plastic perform well as semiconductors in integrated circuits.” So well, in fact, that the nanotube networks could one day “replace organic semiconductors in applications such as flexible displays.” Granted, there is still much to do before these networks are ready for product integration, but you can bet these folks aren’t hitting the brakes after coming this far.
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