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Nature 441, 414-415 (25 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441414a; Published online 24 May 2006
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Nanomaterials: Display of flexibility
László Forró1
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Treated the right way, carbon nanotubes can be moulded into large, flexible electron-emitting sheets. The material is one half of what's needed for an electronic display you could fold up and slip in your pocket.
As far as their electrical properties are concerned, the long, cylindrical carbon molecules known as carbon nanotubes are notoriously Janus-faced: picking out a nanotube from a newly fabricated batch, one cannot know whether it will be a conductor or an insulator. In principle, both types are useful, and the basic transport, mechanical and optical properties of each kind are more or less known.
- László Forró is at the Institute of Physics of Complex Matter, FBS Station 3, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Email: laszlo.forro@epfl.ch
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