Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Silver, Gold Makes for Cheap, Flexible Touch Screens

Serves as money without liability and ever increasing industrial applications. Watch out, any marginal increase in industrial demand will make these markets very difficult to control.

Cheap, flexible touch screens made with silver and gold nanowires could soon be rolling off the presses and into cell phones, computers and more. The same technology could even be used in solar panels.

"It's a roll-to-roll process, just like printing newspapers," said Yu Cui, a scientist at Stanford University and co-author of the paper. "It's extremely fast and can be done at a very low cost."

Source: news.discovery.com

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