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technologyreview.com: By Kate Greene

Materials made from nanotubes could lead to conformable computers that stretch around any shape.

By adding carbon nanotubes to a stretchy polymer, researchers at the University of Tokyo made a conductive material that they used to connect organic transistors in a stretchable electronic circuit. The new material could be used to make displays, actuators, and simple computers that wrap around furniture, says Takao Someya, a professor of engineering at the University of Tokyo. The material could also lead to electronic skin for robots, he says, which could use pressure sensors to detect touch while accommodating the strain at the robots’ joints. Importantly, the process that the researchers developed for making long carbon nanotubes could work on the industrial scale. [ read more ]