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Science 21 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5452, p. 416
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5452.416
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ELECTRONICS:
Setting the Benchmark for Plastic Electronics

Robert F. Service

At the Materials Research Society meeting last month in Boston, researchers reported that they had grown nearly perfect crystals of some 10 different organic materials, all made from small-molecule components rather than spaghettilike polymers, and put them through their paces. Such materials wouldn't be suitable for commercial devices--they would be too expensive and delicate--but they could help define the limits of the possible for cheap plastic circuitry.

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