In addition to making possible improved artificial muscles, this material could be used to make flexible electronic circuits, antennae or mirrors.
"For example, we don't intend to compete with Korea on graphene screens, " he said, a reference to Samsung's determined effort to lead the market in flexible electronic screens and e-paper.
The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST has developed a high performance flexible all-solid-state battery, an essential energy source for flexible displays (see paper in Nano Letters: "Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems").
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Although Mr Peruvemba says his firm has started manufacturing displays with flexible backplanes in-house, its many partners are also busy researching ways to make electronic paper as flexible as the real thing.
Researchers have devised ways to make flexible electronics, for such things as electronic paper.
The quarter-inch thick device, built by the publisher Hearst, features electronic ink mounted on a flexible microfoil and an 11.5-inch screen, making it the biggest, thinnest e-reader yet.
Technologies such as electronic ink, 3D controllers, flexible displays, voice recognition and solid-state mass storage are rapidly approaching mass market commercialization price points.
The same applies to the recent Apple patent for a wrap around display on an electronic device, which specifically relates to flexible AMOLED displays.
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The document describes a flexible touchscreen display which would communicate with a smartphone or other electronic device.
Money needs to be flexible: incarnating itself as coins, paper, bonds, stocks or zipping electronic impulses.
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