Mar 04
In the future we may just flexible gadgets made out of silk.
A group of researchers in Taiwan has developed a way to turn silk membranes into a material suitable for creating electronic devices like eReaders. The research took two years and the process involves creating liquid silk membranes that work as insulators for flexible thin-film transistors.
“We didn’t know at first that it would be the best material, but after a few months of tests we realized it was quite viable,” Professor Hwang Jenn-Chang told PC World. “No one else has thought to try this, or at least no one else has succeeded.”
The researchers are currently in talks to begin utilizing the technology in commercial products.
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