A little flexibility for your TV, mobile phone

By Chilla Malla ReddyIISER, Kolkata
Efforts are being made to produce electronics and devices— such as display screens and mobile phones — that are flexible or foldable. There have been some breakthroughs in this direction. My group at IISER Kolkata accidentally got into research which can help in designing similarly flexible materials, though this was not the initial objective of our work.
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