Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Plastic Made To Conduct Electricity

A plastic-metal hybrid as a granulate or a strand. In the next step the conductive material can be plasticized (softened) again and applied as a printed circuit board. (Credit: Copyright Fraunhofer IFAM)
Plastic that conducts electricity and metal that weighs no more than a feather? It sounds like an upside-down world. Yet researchers have succeeded in making plastics conductive and cutting production costs at the same time.

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