3439921896?profile=originalFlexible electronics are all the rage these days. They promise an entirely new design tool like for instance, tiny smartphones that wrap around our wrists, and flexible displays that fold out as newspapers or large as a television; or photovoltaic cells and reconfigurable antennas that conform to the roofs and trunks of our cars; or flexible implants that can monitor and treat cancer or help paraplegics walk again (read more: "Flexible electronics could transform the way we make and use electronic devices").
In terms of material selection, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene, along with hydrogen terminated amorphous-silicon, low-temperature polycrystalline silicon, semiconducting metal oxides and organic semiconductors, are promising candidates for flexible electronics. especially thin film transistors (TFTs) made of carbon-based materials such as graphene are expected to transform many technological applications.
A recent article in Small reviews the progress in single-walled CNT and graphene-based flexible thin-film transistors related to material preparation, fabrication technique and transistor performance control, in order to clarify the possible scale-up methods by which mature and realistic flexible electronics could be achieved. It highlights state-of-the-art all-carbon nanomaterial transistors and concludes that an all-carbon strategy is most promising to realize extremely flexible, stretchable and transparent electronics. 

Read more here at Nanowerk: Flexible, carbon-based nanotechnology thin-film transistors
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  • I have the question. Can the carbene (line-chain carbone) with embedded various aytoms be used for "Flexible electronics" ?

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