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New flat screens based on carbon nanotube technology will be longer lasting, more energy efficient and more convenient than current screens. There will also be the opportunity to make them both thinner and flexible.

Carbon nanotubes are arrangements of carbon atoms that are formed into tiny tubes about a millionth of a millimeter in diameter. In screens they work as an intermediary, focussing electrons onto a surface where they react with a fluorescent material to produce light for picture displays.  A major challenge for researchers is how to get control of the way they form. In order to use nanotubes for panel displays it is important that the tubes are either aligned or formed into patterns.  The bunches of nanotubes shown here are aligned in vertical groups on a star or cross type of pattern.

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