Today a couple of news sites wrote about a team of scientists from Stanford U and U of California who found new ways of manufacturing flexible electronics.
http://www.photonics.com/content/new.../13/85398.aspx
The main person in charge is Professor Zhenan Bao. You can find some interesting stuff on her homepage:
http://chemeng.stanford.edu/01About_...y/Bao/bao.html