(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electronic devices with muscles-like stretchability have long been pursued, but not achieved due to the requirement that all materials in the devices – electrodes, semiconductor, and dielectric – are stretchable. In their pursuit of fully flexible and stretchable electronic devices, researchers have already reported stretchable solar cells and transistors as well as stretchable active-matrix displays. The nanomaterials used for these purposes range from coiled nanowires to graphene ("Foaming for stretchable electronics").
Recently, researchers at UCLA have successfully demonstrated a stretchable polymer composite that is highly transparent and highly conductive, and applied this nanocomposite material to fabricating stretchable devices.
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