Treated the right way, carbon nanotubes can be moulded into large, flexible electron-emitting sheets. The material is one half of what's needed for an electronic display you could fold up and slip in your pocket.
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Forró, L. Display of flexibility. Nature 441, 414–415 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/441414a
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