![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20080917091514im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field 'Nanonet' Circuits Closer to Making Flexible Electronics Reality
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July 23, 2008
![flexible circuits](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20080917091514im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/nanotube_flexcircuits_l.jpg) | Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including flexible displays and an electronic skin to cover an entire aircraft to monitor crack formation. Full story |
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