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Gels excel

Printing electronic circuits will usher in a new era in electronics. With ion gel dielectrics, unprecedented transistor performance and speeds at low voltage can be demonstrated.

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Figure 1: Printing flexible electronic circuits.

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Facchetti, A. Gels excel. Nature Mater 7, 839–840 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2310

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