Nano News: 02/12/15

Half-meter long carbon nanotube fibers for flexible electronics

Using a simple and direct hand-writing process, researchers have successfully produced ultralong polymer-carbon nanotube (CNT) composite fibers with length of over 50 cm as precisely controlled conducting wires for flexible electronics. The results have been reported in the February 8, 2015 online edition of ("Direct Writing of Half-Meter Long CNT...

Getting in shape - how to create non-spherical particles

New research from the Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) looks at how to create various non-spherical particles by releasing droplets of molten wax into a cool liquid bath. The physics behind this research shows how a range of non-spherical shapes can be produced and replicated...

Inkjet-printed OLED displays

Flexible smartphones and color-saturated television displays were some highlights at this year’s Consumer Electronics Showcase, held in January in Las Vegas. Many of those displays were made using organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs — semiconducting films about 100 nanometers thick, made of organic compounds and sandwiched between two electrodes,...