Researchers at Duke University have developed a method for producing nanowires of copper mass small enough to be invisible to the naked eye. Replace the electrode of indium tin oxide found in LCDs today by copper nanowires, allows to obtain low-cost flexible displays.
According to scientists, these nanowires are more efficient than carbon nanotubes and less expensive than silver nanowires.
They admit, however, that if their work is the first to demonstrate the conducting properties of copper nanowires as electrode invisible, there is a long way to achieve large scale production for our flexible displays.
Construirs the nanowires are in an aqueous solution are mixed in which chemical agents to control the assembly of atoms. Copper crystallizes, forming a core on which the thread will be built.
Scientists must find a solution, hopefully fast, so that the nanowires oxidize or not clump together.
However, those looking for proof that there are different ways to create technological folding screens.
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