Innovation

Your Next Smartphone Could Feature an Elastic Display

THAT’S A STRETCH

A whole new world of phones and smart devices are on the horizon.

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Zhitao Zhang and Jiancheng Lai of Bao Group Research Lab

The era of flexible electronics is upon us.

In a new study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, American and Chinese researchers developed an incredibly elastic material that can be used to make stretchable and bendable screens for smart devices—functional even when stretched out to twice its size.

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