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Published online 3 November 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1201

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Nanotubes turn on the tunes

Stretchy carbon sheets act as loudspeakers.

Stretchable, flexible, transparent sheets of carbon nanotubes can serve as loudspeakers, Chinese researchers have found1. The loudspeakers can be tailored into any size and shape, they say – and to prove their point, they have put one on a waving flag.

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