Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.

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The cotton fibers are made conductive by coating the fibers, first with gold nanoparticles, and then with a thin layer of PEDOT.

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