When these charged droplets come into contact with the surface of the print they collect any substances deposited on it, creating a thin liquid film.

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But when it is stretched, the liquid coating the film recedes into the expanded pores, exposing their edges and reducing lubrication, causing it to become rougher.

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Some work like detergents, disrupting the membrane that surrounds an individual virus in the way that washing-up liquid disrupts an oily film.

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Lee Keun Joo, a senior analyst at Daewoo Securities, predicts a steady 21% rise in annual revenues until 1999, thanks to telecommunications and Hyundai's thin-film transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) operations.

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SmartGlass involves two panes sandwiching a film containing minuscule liquid droplets of these light-absorbing polyiodide crystals.

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Once the beads have been mixed into the liquid rubber, it is rolled out into a thin film and cut into sheets.

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In his 50-year career, Ovshinsky received more than 400 patents in the U.S. and more than 800 foreign patents covering a range of technologies, including nickel-metal hydride batteries, rewritable CDs, DVD optical discs, flat-screen liquid crystal displays, hydrogen fuel cells, thin-film solar cells and others.

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Rather, it's a reflective display that uses a PNLC (Polymer Networked Liquid Crystal) module for improved brightness, and HR-TFT (high-reflective thin film transistor) technology to add contrast.

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