... . The oxide films can't easily be applied to flexible materials: they perform much better on a rigid ... it's less transparent. Previous theory had suggested that materials may function better as catalysts when they have tiny defects ...
... a solar energy collector that could be mass-produced on flexible materials. While methods to convert the energy ... up specific wavelengths depending on their shape and size. This flexibility would make it possible to create double ...
... followed in other places where there is high risk of earthquakes such as North America and Japan. Buildings of flexible materials such as wood and bamboo are preferable to rigid ...
... upon a polymer that has the same electrical properties of silicon wafers but can be dissolved and printed onto flexible material. "I think these materials have a lot more potential than traditional ...
... and televisions that are imbedded inside glass or transparent plastic. The Korean team is also developing a TRRAM using flexible materials. "It is a new milestone of transparent electronic ...
... a method that worked at low frequencies and was based on flexible materials. The ZnO nanowires met these requirements ... , and the new nanogenerator would offer much more flexibility. A major advantage of this new technology is that many nanogenerators ...
Rather than crumbling under pressure, the flexible material forms hairline cracks that can then auto-seal after a few days of light rain, researchers say.
... into clothing, surgical gloves, electronic paper or other flexible materials, have proven difficult to engineer because ... study suggests that ultra-thin, flexible but strong materials such as graphene are ideal candidates for stretchable ...
... efficient solar cells from low-cost and flexible materials. The new design grows optically ... as well as theoretical performance, the researchers made a flexible solar cell of the same design by etching ...
... , films, and textiles. Although circuits printed on flexible materials aren't new, Xerox's method may be cheap and easy enough to open the doors to many new possibilities for flexible electronics ...
A research team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that the researchers say have great potential for a new breed of solar cells.
... closer. Two challenges to the creation of smart flexible materials that can cloak from visible light are making ... that stacking them together can create an independent, flexible material, which can be adopted for use in a wide range of applications ...
... can print solar cells on extremely thin, flexible materials, researchers from MIT have patterned solar ... cell applications, it illustrates the versatility of the technique for low-cost printing on a wide variety of materials ...
... a way to apply them to textiles – cheap, flexible materials with a contorted surface texture – it would ... electronic devices that could benefit by using the lightweight flexibility that some textile materials provide," Jur explains. "Research ...
... in Eindhoven describe a way of creating thin, flexible sheets of organic light-emitting diodes ... . The bottom layer of an OLED, which acts as a support, is a flexible material such as a polymer foil that has the electrodes and the light ...
