Advanced Materials

Researchers have successfully grown forests of carbon nanotubes that rise quickly from sheets of graphene to astounding lengths of up to 120 microns.

New drivers are opening up new frontiers in the display industry, resulting in technological innovation and the expansion and diversification of the market. This article summaries some of these recent developments and research from IDTechEx's brand new report "Metal Oxide TFT Backplanes for Displays 2013-2018: Analysis, Trends, Markets."

DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM) is introducing a new series of screen printed conductive ink materials for the printed electronics market, designed to offset the rising cost of silver.

Haydale is a UK-based company producing single and multi-walled carbon nanotubes as well as multi-layered graphene nanoplatellets. They have a plasma-based production process and can functionalise graphene nanoplatellets and CNTs in-situ. They have also recently launched an ink formulation in collaboration with Gwent Electronic Materials

Amo GmbH is a research foundry. They focus on providing R&D services in the area of nanofabrication. They are currently working on graphene transistors too (not the fabrication part) and have reported promising results.

Poly-ink is a start-up in France supplying two transparent inks based on PDOT:PSS with added carbon nanotubes to improve conductivity. Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh caught up with Poly-Ink in Feburary 2017.