They’ve engineered sheets of bacterial cellulose (essentially an eco-friendly material grown by bacteria) to behave like plastic. Strong, transparent, flexible, and biodegradable, these sheets ...

In a major step toward electronic paper, researchers have made electronic-ink displays on flexible plastic sheets.

Researchers have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. "Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with ...

Making Flexible Electronics With Nanowire Networks If we're ever to have flexible smartphones and mass-produced e-paper, we'll need to invent a new material – one that's flexible, durable, clear ...

Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications ...

Seiko Epson is developing flexible display technologies that could lead to "e-paper" that can be rolled up and folded as a replacement for paper-based newspapers or magazines.

Highly flexible organic semiconductors: Research paves way for thin-sheet plastic displays or wearable electronics Date: February 17, 2013 Source: Rutgers University Summary: Physicists have ...

On a roll: the ultra-thin and ultra-flexible electronic material could be printed and rolled out like newspaper, for the touchscreens of the future. (Courtesy: RMIT University) The first highly ...

The plastic MEMS switch sheet is formed using inkjet printing. The electrodes for power transmission and those for electrostatic attraction are patterned on a 25-μm-thick polyimide membrane.

Indium tin oxide is very conductive, making touchscreens respond to a user’s touch with lightning fast speeds. But it’s also very brittle, making it unsuitable for more flexible displays.