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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 272960, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/272960 Research Article Dry-Transfer of Aligned Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Flexible Transparent Thin Films Matthew Cole,1 Pritesh Hiralal,1, 2 Kai Ying,1 Chi Li,1, 3 Yan Zhang,1 Kenneth Teo,4 Andrea Ferrari,1 and William Milne1, 5 1 Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA, UK 2 Nokia Research Centre, Broers Building, 21 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA, UK 3 Display Research Centre, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China 4 AIXTRON Ltd., Anderson Road, Swavesey CB24 4FQ, UK 5 Department of Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea Correspondence should be addressed to Matthew Cole, mtc35@cam.ac.uk Received 14 October 2011; Accepted 26 December 2011 Academic Editor: Teng Li Copyright © 2012 Matthew Cole et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Herein we present an inexpensive facile wet-chemistry-free approach to the transfer of chemical vapour-deposited multiwalled carbon nanotubes to flexible transparent polymer substrates in a single-step process. By controlling the nanotube length, we demonstrate accurate control over the electrical conductivity and optical transparency of the transferred thin films. Uniaxial strains of up to 140% induced only minor reductions in sample conductivity, opening up a number of applications in stretchable electronics. Nanotube alignment offers enhanced fu