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Advanced Materials on Display

Sterling, VA-based market researcher NanoMarkets predicts that two emerging types of electronics will soon become common in displays: those made with carbon nanotubes and "plastic electronics" made with organic polymers or small molecules. The new displays promise to be exceptionally thin, lightweight, bright, and even bendable, and to consume much less power than traditional displays. NanoMarkets projects that sales of such displays will near $9 billion in 2012.

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