Advanced Materials

NovaCentrix announced today it will use Printed Electronics Europe 2009, in Dresden April 7-8, as the stage for the public launch of a significant new offering in the MetalonTM family of high-performance conductive inks: the ICI copper-based ink platform.

Optomec's Aerosol Jet system has been used to fully print Carbon NanoTube (CNT) based Thin Film Transistors (TFT) with operating frequencies over 5 Gigahertz (GHz). The work was conducted in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts and Brewer Science, Inc.

A new organic high-performance dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) has been developed that does not use Ruthenium.

Polyera and BASF Future Business GmbH have invented a novel n-type organic polymer semiconductor with high mobilities (greater than 0.5) and robust processability.

"If organic photovoltaics - to take just one example - are ever to be realized and marketed, we need to understand how the film formation process works,"

The news media are full of the details of the global financial meltdown. Is this affecting finance for the small companies and start-ups involved in printed and potentially printed electronics and electrics? We think not.

BASF and Vorbeck Materials Corp. have established a joint research program to develop graphene-based formulations and composite materials.