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This could see it one day find use in next-generation mobile devices, and because of its incredible thinness and flexibility, could be manufactured at large scale using roll-to-roll (R2R) processing like a printed newspaper.
The breakthrough comes from researchers at RMIT University, who began with a material commonly used in today's mobile touchscreens called indium-tin oxide. This transparent material is highly conductive but does have its shortcomings, chiefly that it is very brittle, so the team sought to give it better pliability by greatly reducing its thickness.
"We've taken an old material and transformed it from the inside to create a new version that's supremely thin and flexible," says lead researcher Dr Torben Daeneke. "You can bend it, you can twist it, and you could make it far more cheaply and efficiently than the slow and expensive way that we currently manufacture touchscreens."