But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.

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If the effort succeeds, the sheets would be the first flexible and scalable thin sheet-like electrostatic storage product available today.

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The sensor is a flexible copper-plated sheet patterned with small squares that capture various light frequencies all at once, functioning like one big aperture.

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Finally, having started with a clean sheet, Emirates has a flat management structure and the kind of flexible, highly productive workforce that carriers such as strike-torn BA and high-cost Lufthansa can only dream of.

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Dr Hinterdorfer and his team tested this idea by applying a coating of an antigen (an enzyme called lysozyme) to a mica sheet, and suspending an appropriate antibody from the tip of an atomic-force microscope with a flexible polymer tether.

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