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Buckling down for flexible electronics

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Inorganic nanoribbons can be attached to an elastic surface at selected positions to make wave-like structures that maintain their semiconducting properties when stretched or compressed. These nanostructures will prove to be immediately useful in flexible electronics.

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Figure 1: Wave-like metallic and semiconductor structures can be produced in different ways.
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    Xianmao Lu & Younan Xia

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Lu, X., Xia, Y. Buckling down for flexible electronics. Nature Nanotech 1, 163–164 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2006.157

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