Tailoring BAYTRON® P [PEDOT/PSS] for the production of highly conductive transparent films. (Printed Electronics USA 2006)

Dr Wilfried Lovenich,
H C Starck GmbH, Germany
 

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Presentation Summary

  • Polyethylenedioxythiophene-polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT/PSS, BAYTRON® P) is a versatile, solution-processable inherently conductive polymer useful for making transparent conductive and antistatic films.
  • Understanding the basic structural properties of the PEDOT/PSS polymer and its chemical & physical interactions with a variety of coating additives enables end-users to prepare stable, easy-to-use coating dispersions and to optimise coating formulations for specific applications.
  • Recent advances in the production of highly conductive PEDOT/PSS dispersions will be discussed and compared to other transparent conductive layers such as indium-tin-oxide (ITO). Examples of applications which use these highly conductive PEDOT/PSS materials in place of ITO will be presented.

Speaker Biography

Wilfried Lövenich is an R&D chemist at H.C. Starck Leverkusen, Germany, working on the development and Pilot Plant Production of BAYTRON P (PEDOT/ PSS). He obtained his diploma from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany. He then went to the University of Durham, Great Britain, to obtain his Ph.D. studying the "Effect of fluorine substitution on conjugated polymers". In 2002 he joined the Electronic Chemicals group of H.C. Starck in Leverkusen, Germany.

Company Profile

H.C. Starck is an international group of companies with more than 3,400 employees at production sites in Europe, North America and the Far East. Widely known for its technology in refractory metals and ceramics, H.C. Starck has been a member of the Bayer Group since 1986. Worldwide sales of the H.C. Starck group are approximately € 900 Million. H.C. Starck produces an assortment of refractory metal powders that is unique the world over—including tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, rhenium as well as their compounds (borides, carbides, nitrides, oxides, silicides, sulfides, etc.). In addition to metal powders, semi-finished and finished metal and metal alloy products of molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, niobium, titanium, zirconium and nickel are manufactured. H.C. Starck also produces thermal spray and advanced ceramic powders, nonferrous metals such as nickel and nickel salts, boron and boron compounds, and specialty materials for the electronics industry such as inherently conductive polymers (BAYTRON®), colloidal silicas, and refractory metal chlorides and organometallics.
 
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