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Materials

Merck and FlexEnable shape the future

by Alex Scott
May 22, 2017 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 95, Issue 21

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Credit: Merck KgaA
Merck and FlexEnable will together make novel-shaped displays.
A photo of a bright tube-shaped display.
Credit: Merck KgaA
Merck and FlexEnable will together make novel-shaped displays.

Liquid-crystal display materials maker Merck KGaA has teamed up with Cambridge, England-based flexible electronics producer FlexEnable to develop a new generation of LCDs with complex surfaces and shapes. The displays are set to combine FlexEnable’s organic thin-film transistors with Merck’s polymer-wall organic LCD technology. The organic LCDs the firms are working on have a bend radius that can go below 30 mm.

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