Takao Someya of the University of Tokyo has built for himself a stretchy, flexible conducting material using carbon nanotubes mixed with a polymer.

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And as much as Tim Cook has said he does not like AMOLED displays, that might indeed be the best material for these flexible, low-energy screens.

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Cooper believes stabilizing raw material costs, flexible manufacturing operations, profitable investments and competitive labor agreements will help it improve results moving ahead despite of the headwinds faced by the industry.

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In addition to making possible improved artificial muscles, this material could be used to make flexible electronic circuits, antennae or mirrors.

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However, it is not possible to anneal the metal oxides, an active material, at this high temperature on flexible polymer substrates.

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Some may remember Konarka, a Massachusetts-based company working on creating flexible thin-film solar that could be applied to everything from tent material to clothing to the roof of a bus.

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