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'Cut and stick' ion gels

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Ion gels are composites of ionic liquids and polymers. Free-standing forms of ion gels have now been made that can be neatly cut with a razor blade and stuck onto semiconductor materials to make transistors.

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Figure 1: An ion-gel transistor.

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  1. Masashi Kawasaki and Yoshihiro Iwasa are at the Quantum Phase Electronics Research Center and in the Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, and at the RIKEN-Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Japan.,

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Kawasaki, M., Iwasa, Y. 'Cut and stick' ion gels. Nature 489, 510–511 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/489510a

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