Development of Novel Materials for Printed Electronic Devices

Since leaving ICI in 2001 Mike has been working in knowledge transfer facilitating collaborative R&D projects between companies and universities to support innovation within the companies. Initially this was with the University of Wales with a focus on microfluidics, microengineering and photonics before taking up the role of Industrial Liaison Manager with the Organic Materials Innovation Centre (OMIC) at the University of Manchester. OMIC is now part of the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC) and Mike has the wider responsibilities of a Knowledge Transfer manager within the KCMC.

The Organic Materials Innovation Centre (OMIC) is a University Innovation Centre for the speciality organic materials and polymer industries based at the University of Manchester. The centre was established in 2004 with support from the UK Government. It is an independently managed partnership between industry and academia to help businesses to innovate and grow through collaborative R&D projects. OMIC has considerable expertise in the discovery, development and characterisation of new organic materials, for example conjugated oligomers, soluble oligoacenes, conjugated liquid crystals and semiconducting / conducting polymers. In addition OMIC has expertise in the processing, using ink-jet technology, of the novel semi-conducting and conducting polymers into a wide range of devices on a diverse range of substrates. Since 2009 OMIC has been a major partner in the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC).