Living bacteria embedded in silicone can absorb green LED light and re-emit it as red, offering a potential sustainable ...

As part of an overarching quest to build “skin-inspired” electronics that are soft and stretchy, Stanford University chemical engineer Zhenan Bao and her research team have been developing a display ...

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on pi-conjugated polymers offer significant advantages over other display materials. They are lightweight, flexible, easily tailored, operate on low ...

Imagine a thin, digital display so flexible that you can wrap it around your wrist, fold it in any direction, or curve it over your car’s steering wheel. Researchers at the Pritzker School of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The screen on your smartphone or television is a rigid object that ...

Conducting polymers have emerged as a pivotal class of materials for advanced optoelectronic applications owing to their tunable molecular structure, ...

Researchers have used machine learning to crack the code governing charge transfer and color emission in chains of molecules, with applications in data storage, security inks, organic light-emitting ...

An elastic light-emitting polymer that glows like a filament in a light bulb could lead to affordable, practical and robust flexible screens. Flexible screens could form part of wearable computers ...

Hancock, N.H. — A new take on the theory of light-emitting polymers suggests that their efficiency could be doubled. Such a development would boost the introduction of flexible displays or possibly ...

No one would ever imagine crumpling up their smartphone, television or another electronic device. Today’s displays – which are flat, rigid and fragile – lack the ability to reshape to interactively ...