Newer materials use smaller, cheaper crystals, such as copper - indium - gallium - selenide, that can be shaped
into flexible films.
Not exact matches
In the case of
flexible packaging, converting would be the process of utilizing
films, foils and resins and through the process of lamination, forming them
into a multilayer structure.
«These investments mean we are now fully integrated
into the
film value chain at the Hueck Folien plant in Weiden and will strengthen Constantia
Flexibles» credentials as a supplier of high - performance
films for different food industries,» said Stefan Grote, EVP Food Europe.
So Steve Dunn at Queen Mary University in London and James Durrant at Imperial College London have been experimenting with zinc oxide, which is much cheaper and can be made
into thin,
flexible films.
With this technique, the Empa team has again been able to significantly increase the energy conversion efficiency from sunlight
into electricity using CIGS thin
film solar cells on
flexible plastic foils — to a new record level of 20.4 %, representing a marked improvement over the previous record of 18.7 % established by the same team in May 2011.
It looks like a small piece of transparent
film with tiny engravings on it, and is
flexible enough to be bent
into a tube.
In work led by professor Yanliang Zhang at Boise State University, high - performance and low - cost
flexible thermoelectric
films and devices were fabricated by an innovative screen - printing process that allows for direct conversion of nanocrystals
into flexible thermoelectric devices.
In one of them, the
film's vixenish flirt of a bookseller, played by Elizabeth Banks, strips down in front of Andy, the long - standing virgin of the
film's title, gets
into her tub, and proceeds to masturbate (underwater, well out of the camera's direct view) with a
flexible shower head.
Peele, who wrote and directed the
film, could also slide
into the best director or best screenplay category, the latter of which is usually more
flexible in rewarding offbeat fare (like this year's nod for the beautifully deranged The Lobster).
A meditation on the
flexible richness of writing, the fluid resonances of collage practices, the mobile symbolic relations between art and poetry, and the open channel between representation and the natural world that Vicuna's practice seeks to keep alive and breathing, the
film does not signal a climax or closure to the exhibition, but an aperture
into space and time, and an encounter with our own place within them.
Ultimately, this
film offers an interesting perspective
into yet another alternative way of living that seems lighter, more
flexible and potentially more satisfying — even if society's laws and norms haven't caught up yet.