Scientists at MPI-P in collaboration with researchers from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and Lodz University of Technology have produced a very thin nylon film that can be used in building transparent electronic devices. They were able to realise thin nylon films that are typically only a few 100 nanometers thick, several 100 times thinner than a human hair. Nylons, a family of synthetic polymers, were first introduced in the 1920s for women’s stockings and are nowadays among the most widely used synthetic fibers in textiles.
Scientists develop nylon to build transparent electronic devices
