IP: One word: plastic

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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>   Stories of modern science...From UPI
>   By JONATHAN D. BEARD, UPI Science Writer
>
>     WILL THERE BE PLASTIC IN YOUR PLASTIC?
>     A new material developed at Bell Labs could pave the way for better
> smart
>   cards and other applications, for it essentially permits the manufacture
> of
>   plastic transistors that can be made by cheap printing technology. "Within
>   the last year, there have been major advances in plastic electronics, and
>   these research results may allow us to make sophisticated plastic circuits
>   with printing techniques," said Howard Katz of Bell Labs, the lead author
> of
>   the report published in the March 30 issue of Nature. Scientists have been
>   striving to make useful plastic transistors for years. The new material,
>   called F15, is stable and soluble at room temperature, says Katz, so it
> can
>   be dissolved in a solvent and then printed on a plastic sheet. "The whole
>   process is very similar to printing a newspaper," Katz says. The new
>   semiconductor contains regions that are fluoridated, like Teflon, which is
>   both stable and protective, as are Teflon films.
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