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May 16, 2016

Silver could be the key to gold-standard flexible gadgets
Surrey, UK (SPX) May 16, 2016
Research published in the journals Materials Today Communications and Scientific Reports has described how silver nanowires are proving to be the ideal material for flexible, touch-screen technologies while also exploring how the material can be manipulated to tune its performance for other applications. Currently, touch screen devices mainly rely on electrodes made from indium tin oxide (ITO), a material that is expensive to source, expensive to process and very brittle. A team from the Universit ... read more

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