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University of Miami engineer designs stretchable electronics with a twist

Posted on 21. Jan, 2009 by admin.

The new mechanical design accommodates extreme bending and straining without reduction in electronic performance
Jizhou Song, a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can be wrapped [...]

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Semiconducting nanotubes produced in quantity at Duke

Posted on 21. Jan, 2009 by admin.

After announcing last April a method for growing exceptionally long, straight, numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick, a Duke University-led team of chemists has now modified that process to create exclusively semiconducting versions of these single-walled carbon nanotubes.

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