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Flexible electronics

Stretching our imagination

Nature Nanotechnology volume 3, pages 585–586 (2008)Cite this article

Composites containing ultralong single-walled carbon nanotubes can be integrated with transistors to make stretchable and flexible electronic devices.

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Figure 1: Optical image (left) of a large-area stretchable active matrix that contains 19 × 37 pixels, each of which contains an organic transistor (right) made of pentacene (green) deposited on the silicone rubber/polyimide support.

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