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Nanotube Electronics

A flexible approach to mobility

Nature Nanotechnology volume 2, pages 207–208 (2007)Cite this article

An innovative and scalable strategy for making high-density arrays of aligned nanotubes could lead to the mass-production of high-performance, high-power flexible electronics.

Rapid progress in flexible technology1,2 allows us to imagine a large number of innovative products such as electronic paper, wearable displays, smart gloves and so on. Single-walled carbon nanotubes3 have great promise for applications in flexible electronics, but it has been very difficult, if not impossible, to prepare flexible high-performance integrated circuits based on them. On page 230 of this issue, John Rogers and co-workers4 report an innovative solution to this problem, which involves growing dense arrays of aligned nanotubes on a crystalline quartz substrate, and then transferring the arrays onto plastic materials to make flexible, high-performance, high-power electronic devices.

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  1. Seunghun Hong and Sung Myung are at the School of Physics and Nano-Systems Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea.,

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Hong, S., Myung, S. A flexible approach to mobility. Nature Nanotech 2, 207–208 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2007.89

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