Ciba Specialty Chemicals and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, are to collaborate in the research of conductive materials for printable electronic materials. The three-year, multidisciplinary project focuses on the development of novel conductive polymers for printable applications.
This collaboration is expected to speed up the introduction of improved materials. The production of devices such as sensors, photovoltaic cells, RFID tags, OLEDs and other electronics will benefit considerably from printing as against other techniques, such as etching.
“Printable organic electronics offer great opportunities for new electronic devices,” says Martin Riediker, Ciba’s chief technology officer. “However, the performance, durability and handling requirements of the conductive materials currently available are not yet adequate for many major applications. Groundbreaking development work in this highly interdisciplinary field is still needed.”
Adds professor Gerhard Wegner, director at the Max Planck Institute: “With this partnership, we want to take a major step to bridge the gap between potential and real application of conductive polymers in an important application area”.
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