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Guar gum, a polysaccharide, is a cheap and environmentally friendly material produced naturally by a leguminous shrub.

The film has a high tensile strength and Kadokawa says it can conduct electricity as efficiently as semi-conductors.   Uniquely, the film hardens upon heating but becomes soft again as it cools. These properties mean that it could be used to produce temperature sensors.

Antal Jákli, at Kent State University, and colleagues have made use of a property called flexoelectricity, where materials, such as LCs, convert mechanical energy into electrical energy when they are flexed.