Plastic warm metalworking makes traditionally brittle inorganic semiconductors suitable for flexible or wearable electronics

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1083285

"no: costly complex deposition/ sputtering, rigid substrates... plasticity below ~200 °C enables easy fabrication using rolling (3000% extensibility), compression, extrusion... free-standing, substrate-free, µm to mm tunable thicknesses, retain high crystallinity/ physical properties comparable to their bulk counterparts... carrier mobilities as high as ~1000–5000 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹, 4X higher than that of crystalline silicon and orders of magnitude greater than most 2D and organic materials... flexible, wearable electronics"

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