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IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Willie D. Jones	Electronic Circuits That Bend and Stretch U.S. scientists claim they have developed an improved plastic circuit that is not only flexible but also stretchable and foldable.
Chemistry World September 27, 2012 Andy Extance	Silicon sliver implants melt away A US-led team has made the first completely water-soluble silicon-based circuits and demonstrated simple medical implant devices that wouldn't need later removal.
Technology Research News July 28, 2004	Process prints silicon on plastic The components could be used in flexible large-area displays, radiofrequency ID tags, sensors, and flexible applications like reconfigurable antennas.
IEEE Spectrum August 2008	Slideshow: Two Takes on Stretchy Circuits Breakthroughs in the United States and Japan allow for stretchable circuits, curved camera chips, and more.
Chemistry World July 24, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Nanotube mesh boosts plastic electronics Circuits on light, flexible surfaces could provide a range of products from paper-thin displays to intelligent food packaging and smart clothing.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz	Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet.
Chemistry World July 20, 2015 Carolyn Devlin	Energy devices go wireless Scientists in China have developed a new method for connecting energy devices without using wires. Not only are the devices easy to make, they continue to work even when bent or twisted -- a vital trait for flexible electronics.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Nanotubes tied to silicon circuit Connecting minuscule nanotube transistors to traditional silicon transistors enables the atomic-scale electronics to communicate with existing electronic equipment.
Chemistry World August 7, 2008	Elastic Conductor Stretches Electronics Scientists have printed organic transistors onto elastic conducting materials to create stretchy electronic sheets.
Chemistry World January 5, 2011 Jon Cartright	Silk woven into transistors Researchers in Sweden and Spain have created transistors woven from modified silk fibres. The breakthrough bodes well for a new generation of electronic circuits that can be incorporated into fabrics or inserted into biological environments.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley	Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.
PC Magazine January 18, 2006	Bits & Bites v25n2 Researchers have produced a stretchable type of silicon that could lead to stretchable electronic gadgets, artificial muscles and tissues, and flexible skins for robotic sensors.
Chemistry World October 17, 2010 Laura Howes	Twist and shine An international team of researchers has developed flexible sheets of tiny light emitting diodes that could be implanted under the skin like glowing tattoos and used in a range of biomedical applications.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Nanowire Computer Circuits Debut Researchers have found a way to paint molecular-size circuitry onto glass. The method is potentially very low-cost, and could eventually be used to make computer chips that pack extremely tiny and thus powerful circuits.
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Neil Savage	One Graphene Device Makes Three Amplifiers Logic device could be even more multipurpose
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley	Ultrathin carbon speeds circuits Researchers have found that the equivalent of unrolled carbon nanotubes -- sheets of carbon atoms only a few atoms thick -- have comparable electrical properties and are more compatible with today's chipmaking methods. It could be used practically within five years
Chemistry World March 27, 2012 Laura Howes	Temporary tattoo to give you the sporting edge This Saturday, Nascar racer Paulie Harraka will be using a device based on John Rogers work at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to monitor his hydration levels as he races.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2002 Patricia Panchak	Technologies Of The Year -- Molecular Electronics Hewlett-Packard breakthrough could extend limits of silicon chips.
Chemistry World December 12, 2014 Anthony King	Smart skin for prosthetic limbs senses heat and touch This new stretchable prosthetic skin comes equipped with ultra-thin, single crystalline silicon nanoribbon sensors for strain, pressure and temperature, as well as humidity sensors, heaters and stretchable multi-electrode arrays for nerve stimulation.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Neil Savage	Graphene's New Rival Molybdenum disulfide helps graphene transistors work better -- and it makes good nanocircuits on its own, too
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Flexible electronics get even more bendy Researchers in Switzerland have developed a method to create electronic membranes that are thin and flexible enough to wrap around a human hair.
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Andrew J. Steckl	Electronics on Paper Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets
Popular Mechanics February 5, 2010 Cassie Rodenberg	Solar-Powered Circuits Charge by Sunlight in Real-Time Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the world's first solar-powered circuit in a January edition of ACS Nano. The technology shows particular promise for touchscreen devices
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Neil Savage	Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough Could Speed Flexible Circuits An Illinois company says it has made the first practical complementary polymer circuits.
Chemistry World June 8, 2015 James Urquhart	Injectable electronics unfold to monitor brain activity Flexible electronics have been created that unfold once injected into a biological tissue such as the brain.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2006 Jack Uldrich	IBM's Teeny Tiny Transistors Big Blue's new nanocircuit suggests that carbon nanotubes will soon be employed in hybrid computer circuit devices.
Chemistry World Jon Cartwright	Rollerball Writes Electronics Straight to Paper Electronic circuits can be fiddly to make: engineers have to snap components onto a board or etch designs onto a copper surface. Now a US group of researchers has demonstrated that all you really need is a pen and some paper.
Chemistry World September 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Artificial skin gets touchy New ways of incorporating pressure sensors into large, flexible surfaces which could one day provide robots or people fitted with artificial hands with a delicate sense of touch
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Plastic transistors go vertical Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have brought inexpensive, practical organic transistors a step closer to your grocery cart by devising a pair of processes that form small, vertical transistors from layers of printed polymer.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2006 John Teresko	Technologies Of The Year -- Defying Moore's Law IBM researchers have built the first complex electronic integrated circuit around a single carbon nanotube molecule, a new material that shows promise for enhancing performance over today's standard silicon semiconductors.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003	Plastic display circuit shines Researchers from the University of Tokyo have taken a step forward by fabricating on a glass surface a circuit that contains an organic light-emitting diode and an organic thin-film transistor. The diode was bright enough to be used in a display, according to the researchers.
Wired June 23, 2008 Jonathon Keats	Jargon Watch: Bendy Chips, Nighttime Spinach, Dark Marketing New terms to include in our vocabulary.
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Michael Singer	HP Plots Its Nano Course Company believes in moving computing beyond silicon to the world of molecular-scale electronics.
Technology Research News March 12, 2003	Cold logic promises speedy devices Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory have made a superconducting logic circuit that computes very quickly and requires little power.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Stamp bangs out plastic circuits Today's transistors are etched from silicon wafers in a multi-step process that involves laser beams, chemicals and clean rooms. A simpler process would make for cheaper computer chips, and a gentler process would allow for transistors of different materials.
Chemistry World June 18, 2015 Suzanne Howson	Nano-accordions stretch the boundaries for flexible electronics Scientists in the US have unveiled a conductive and transparent material that also stretches, thanks to its corrugated design.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Nanowires boost plastic circuits The move is on to develop flexible, cheap, plastic electronics, but so far organic circuits have fallen far short of silicon chip performance. Researchers from the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Germany have moved the field forward with a new way to make flexible transistors.
Chemistry World September 15, 2013 Laura Howes	Taking temperature with a temporary tattoo John Rogers of the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign and his team have just published their latest advance - creating a flexible wearable thermometer.
Chemistry World May 15, 2013 Emma Stoye	Desktop printed paper electronics A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found a way to print flexible circuits at room temperature. They used commercially available paper and equipment, with a few modifications.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Wager & Hoffman	Thin, Fast, and Flexible Semiconductors Amorphous oxide semiconductors promise to make flat-panel displays faster and sharper than today's silicon standby.
Technology Research News February 9, 2005	Silicon nanocrystal transistor shines A nanocrystal field-effect light-emitting device (FELED) could be used to integrate light sources on computer chips. This would allow the light sources and control circuits of display and communications device to be fabricated together, making for a faster, cheaper manufacturing process.
Technology Research News March 26, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Design handles iffy nanocircuits Tiny circuits pose challenges that don't show up at larger scales. One of the biggest has to do with the number of defects in a device. Researchers are exploring ways to build defect tolerance into electronics so the hardware will work even when it contains a lot of faulty circuits.
Chemistry World July 23, 2015 David Bradley	Super-elastic wire stretches without losing power A conducting wire that can be stretched to 14 times its original length has been developed by scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas, US.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Singh & Thakur	Chip Making's Singular Future Beleaguered chip makers are counting on single-wafer manufacturing, which makes ICs on one wafer at a time, to cut costs and get chips to market faster.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 John McHale	Raytheon technique for growing semiconductor compounds on silicon to provide affordable ICs to DOD Experts at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are demonstrating that affordable, high-performance circuits for military applications can be produced by growing semiconductor compounds directly on silicon.
IEEE Spectrum October 2011 Ozpinec & Tolbert	Silicon Carbide: Smaller, Faster, Tougher Meet the material that will supplant silicon in hybrid cars and the electric grid
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Process prints nanoparticles Researchers have coaxed tiny particles of gold, silver and carbon to assemble into patterns on silicon wafers over areas as large as a square centimeter by using electrical charge patterns to attract and position the nanoparticles.
Chemistry World February 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Efficient solar cells from silicon wires US researchers have designed a new silicon-based solar cell which uses 100 times less silicon than conventional photovoltaic devices.
Chemistry World March 7, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Diatoms Transformed Into Silicon Sensors Materials scientists have found a simple method of converting frustules - the intricate silica-based skeletons of common single celled photosynthetic organisms called diatoms - into pure silicon structures with many applications.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Liu et al.	MEMS Switches for Low-Power Logic A modern twist on a trusted old technology -- the electromechanical relay -- could lead to ultralow-power chips