Friday, 5 December 2014

Scientist's new rewriteable 'paper' is actually made of glass or plastic

Scientist's new rewriteable 'paper' is actually made of glass or plastic


If you ask us, the idea of rewritable paper seems pretty redundant no matter how high-tech it is. Apparently that didn't cross the mind of scientists at the University of California, Riverside. See, that's where Yadong Yin and his colleagues are using special color-switching dyes (called "redox") and an ultra-violet light to put text on a physical medium. In this case, that's a glass or plastic film like the tile above. The school says that these can be rewritten some 20 times...

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