Printed electronics entering the next phase
German chemical giant BASF and Heidelberg Printing Machines as well as the Technical University of Darmstadt agreed on August 2, 2012 to continue their joint activities in the leading-edge cluster “Forum Organic Electronics” and to develop new materials and innovative printing processes closely interlinked as well as cost effective production methods for printed electronics on flexible substrates to be developed and tested in a joint clean room
The three partners are pleased with the results of the first phase of the joint research project “Nano-structuring and plastic electronics print platform (NanoPEP). So far, the partners’ research teams were working on nano-based functional material and the related innovative printing methods for processing these since summer 2009. The resulting applications in the field of organic electronics are based on conductive polymers and on smaller molecules of organic chemistry and are considered as important future technologies offering considerable commercial potential. The range of application reaches from organic circuits and storage devices to photo-voltaic applications and organic LEDs.
BASF researchers work on innovative new hybrid materials (inorganic and organic components) in nano-structuring. Especially designed nano-particles are used as building blocks for functional materials being built by new process technologies in a tool-box like system. In a subsequent step, these materials are processed into printable suspensions and tested by the project partners. The new materials permit perfect electronic functionality in the printed film. The printable suspensions for organic electronics can be processed at low temperatures. This offers a challenge for material development, because the components and their interaction have to be completely and newly adjusted to printing conditions. These materials should enable the production of components on inexpensive flexible polymer foils using the roll-to-roll printing method.
Printed electronics entering the next phase
German chemical giant BASF and Heidelberg Printing Machines as well as the Technical University of Darmstadt agreed on August 2, 2012 to continue their joint activities in the leading-edge cluster “Forum Organic Electronics” and to develop new materials and innovative printing processes closely interlinked as well as cost effective production methods for printed electronics on flexible substrates to be developed and tested in a joint clean room
The three partners are pleased with the results of the first phase of the joint research project “Nano-structuring and plastic electronics print platform (NanoPEP). So far, the partners’ research teams were working on nano-based functional material and the related innovative printing methods for processing these since summer 2009. The resulting applications in the field of organic electronics are based on conductive polymers and on smaller molecules of organic chemistry and are considered as important future technologies offering considerable commercial potential. The range of application reaches from organic circuits and storage devices to photo-voltaic applications and organic LEDs.
BASF researchers work on innovative new hybrid materials (inorganic and organic components) in nano-structuring. Especially designed nano-particles are used as building blocks for functional materials being built by new process technologies in a tool-box like system. In a subsequent step, these materials are processed into printable suspensions and tested by the project partners. The new materials permit perfect electronic functionality in the printed film. The printable suspensions for organic electronics can be processed at low temperatures. This offers a challenge for material development, because the components and their interaction have to be completely and newly adjusted to printing conditions. These materials should enable the production of components on inexpensive flexible polymer foils using the roll-to-roll printing method.