Advanced Materials

The FLEXIBILITY consortium, consisting of Enfucell, Siemens, VTT, Varta Microbattery and seven other leading European technology companies and universities, has been granted a 4,9 million euro project funding by the EU commission of which Enfucell's share is 258.000 euros. The project is coordinated by the Dresden University of Technology and has a life span of four years.

UK companies are being invited to take part in a competition for funding for collaborative research and development projects that aim to develop and stimulate technology within the European Organic and Large Area Electronics (OLAE) community.

Combination of Thinfilm printed rewritable memory and PARC transistors enables low-cost, printed integrated systems for the "Internet of things".

With the aim of continuing to promote industrial innovation based on state-of-the-art technologies, CSEM has opened a new innovation center in Muttenz, with the support of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft.

Scientists from Singapore's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), an institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have created a new polymer with both high charge mobility and high power conversion efficiency for application in both plastic electronics and organic solar cells.

Faster organic semiconductors for flexible displays can be developed quickly with new method, say Stanford researchers.

Scientists show that non-volatile memory made from a sandwich of silver nanoparticle-laced plastic retains its on/off state over a wider voltage range when operating at toasty temperatures.

UMass Amherst Research Team discovers new conducting properties of bacteria-produced nanowires

Solvay and Avantium announced today that they have entered into a partnership to jointly develop a next generation of green high-performance polyamides for engineering plastics. The partnership combines Solvay's leading position in specialty polymers and Avantium's YXY technology for producing building blocks for green materials.

Smartkem's novel organic semiconductor materials achieve 'better than amorphous-silicon' performance.

Siemens exclusively licenses imaging technology to Nikkoia SAS

Organic and Printed Electronics Association

New research paves way for next generation of ultra-small electronic devices.

Researchers at the University of Warwick have developed a gold plated window as the transparent electrode for organic solar cells.