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2001.
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Flexible Glass, Flexible Screens
Computer screens that fold up like handkerchiefs are on the horizon as the result of a new plastics-encasing barrier technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash.
An ultrathin coating blocks oxygen and moisture without impeding the transmission of light.
"It offers the display industry the best of both worlds, the flexibility of plastic and the barrier protection of glass," says PNNL researcher Gordon Graf, who aptly named the new material Flexible Glass.
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