Stretchy light-emitting plastic could be used in wearable screens

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Stretchy light-emitting plastic could be used in wearable screens
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A light-emitting plastic material is twice as bright as smartphone screens and retains 80 per cent of its brightness even after being stretched 100 times.

Zhitao Zhang and Jiancheng Lai, Bao Group Research Lab

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 that stick to our skin and do away with the need to carry a separate smartphone or laptop. But the various existing flexible displays all have flaws: they either require high voltages to run, are too fragile, too expensive, not bendy enough or lack brightness.

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