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Soon, wrap your smartphone on the wrist

Soon you may be able to use your smartphone on your wrist or bend your computer to fit in your pocket! Researchers have taken a step towards more flexible devices by fabricating a thin film that keeps her even when very curved electric and magnetic properties useful. Flexible electronics have been difficult to manufacture because many materials with useful electronic properties tend to be rigid. Researchers have addressed this problem by taking small pieces of material such as silicon and embedded in the flexible plastic. A team of physicists and engineers from South Korea took the same approach with bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) - one of the most promising materials whose properties can be controlled with a magnetic field, and vice versa. These materials are called multiferroic and attract interest for applications such as energy efficient, instant-on computing. The researchers synthesized bismuth ferrite nanoparticles and mixed in a polymer solution. The solution was dried i