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Electronic Textiles Being Made

Textiles coated with carbon nanotubes form electronic sensors that look and feel like ordinary cotton.

By Katherine Bourzac

The process starts with ordinary cotton thread and an ethanol-based solution of carbon nanotubes and the polymer Nafion.

Credit: Fabrizio Costantini

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  • Use?
    While this sounds really cool what can it be used for? What kinds of applications? Would be great if there was some more information on how one could put it to use.

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    • Re: Use?
      To built flexible keyboards for sample, device which could be together keybod or display and case, for smart sporweats, snikers, etc.
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