So the prospect of being able to use sheets of polymer film instead of paint is tempting indeed.

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The technology comprises an extremely thin polymer film upon which electrodes are printed.

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In a 35-nanosecond burst of laser light, 4.3 megabytes of a color image are burned on a photosensitive DuPont polymer film, rearranging the chemistry into a zebra-striped interference pattern.

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Made from a flexible polymer film suffused with fluorescent particles, the prototypes catch only a specific wavelength of light and shoot it to an array of sensors that surround the sheet's edge.

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Bacteria in such a film are embedded in a polymer matrix, which makes them harder to kill than isolated individuals.

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Polymer banknotes are printed on a non-porous plastic film, making them more durable than traditional rag-based paper bills.

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The thin film LIB fabricated on a mica substrate with high annealing temperature is transferred onto polymer substrates through a simple physical delamination of sacrificial substrates.

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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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