<span style="color: #222222;">A new manufacturing technique uses a process similar to newspaper printing to form smoother and more flexible metals for making ultrafast electronic devices. <br />”<br />”The low-cost process, developed by researchers at Purdue University in the US, combines tools already used in industry for manufacturing metals on a large scale.<br />”<br />”According to the research published in the journal Nano Letters, the fabrication method, called&nbsp;<b>roll-to-roll laser-induced super plasticity</b>, uses a rolling stamp like the ones used to print newspapers at high speed. <br />”<br />”The fabrication method uses the speed and precision of roll-to-roll newspaper printing to remove a couple of fabrication barriers in making electronics faster than they are today.<br />”</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">One of the researchers said that adding the latest advances in nanotechnology requires them to pattern metals in sizes that are even smaller than the grains they are made of. <br />”<br />”This so-called &quot;formability limit&quot; hampers the ability to manufacture materials with nanoscale resolution at high speed.<br />”</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;The new technique can induce, for a brief period of time, &quot;superelastic&quot; behaviour to different metals by applying high-energy laser shots, which enables the metal to flow into the nanoscale features of the rolling stamp – circumventing the formability limit.</span><br />” &nbsp;<br />