Another flexible circuit project emerges, carbon nanotubes to blame
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Yeah, we get it, flexible electronics — sans application — are about as exciting as the circuitry under your keyboard. But it’s Friday, and this here story has real-live carbon nanotubes, so you know it’s a winner. Takao Someya of the University of Tokyo has built for himself a stretchy, flexible conducting material using carbon nanotubes blended with a polymer. The nanotubes are blended into a compound called “bucky gel” to prevent clumping, and after some rubber-like flourinated copolymer is blended in and it’s all poured onto a glass plate, holes are punched in the material to superior flexibility. Apparently it ends up looking a bit like a nylon stocking, but we won’t hold that it against it, since it can be stretched up to 38%, while also managing to be 100 times more conductive than any other elastic material. The possibilities for such technology is pretty much endless, but we’d say “nylon stocking that’s also, conveniently, a computer” is the first product category worth felling.
[Via I4U]
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