News tagged with organic films
Fabrication method can affect the use of block copolymer thin films
A new study by a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) indicates that thin polymer films can have different properties depending on the method by which they ...
May 03, 2012 |
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Beyond stain-resistant: New fabric coating actively shrugs off gunk
Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of a fabric coating that would give new meaning to the phrase "stain-resistant" -- a coating that would take an active role in sloughing off grease, ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Scientists discover bilayer structure in efficient solar material
Detailed studies of one of the best-performing organic photovoltaic materials reveal an unusual bilayer lamellar structure that may help explain the material's superior performance at converting sunlight to electricity and ...
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Researchers show the way forward for improving organic and molecular electronic devices
Future prospects for superior new organic electronic devices are brighter now thanks to a new study by researchers with the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Working at the Lab's ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Glowing White: Solvent-free luminescent organic liquids for organic electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- The future will be dominated by organic electronics, as opposed to current silicon-based technology. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, an international team of researchers has now introduced a new ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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All-inorganic nanocrystals boost infrared emission
New chemistry has been developed to integrate lead chalcogenide nanocrystals into continuous inorganic matrices of chalcogenide glasses. Inorganic capping, rather than conventional organic capping ligands, ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 14, 2012 |
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The world's first sterilizable flexible organic transistor
An international research team has succeeded in manufacturing on a polymeric film the world’s first flexible organic transistor that is robust enough under high temperature medical sterilization process. ...
Mar 07, 2012 |
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SNS, HFIR experiments help refine thin-film solar cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar cells that convert sunlight into electricity could be a widely used renewable energy source. Getting to that point, though, requires breakthroughs in their cost and their efficiency at turning sunbeams ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Breakthrough reported in transconductance in ink-jet printing
MRS Communications, the recently launched journal from the Materials Research Society and Cambridge University Press, was designed to serve the fast-moving international materials research community.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Nanowire-based sensors offer improved detection of volatile organic compounds
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), George Mason University and the University of Maryland has made nano-sized sensors that detect volatile ...
Jun 22, 2011 |
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Pentagonal tiles pave the way towards organic electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research paves way for the nanoscale self-assembly of organic building blocks, a promising new route towards the next generation of ultra-small electronic devices.
May 06, 2011 |
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Organic 2-D films could lead to better solar cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar cells made from organic materials are inexpensive, lightweight and flexible, but their performance lags behind cells that contain silicon or other inorganic materials. Cornell chemist ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Expanding the degrees of surface freezing
(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of the quest to form perfectly smooth single-molecule layers of materials for advanced energy, electronic, and medical devices, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Radically simple technique developed to grow conducting polymer thin films
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oil and water don't mix, but add in some nanofibers and all bets are off.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Single-crystal films could advance solar cells (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers have developed a new method to create a patterned single-crystal thin film of semiconductor material that could lead to more efficient photovoltaic cells and batteries.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 08, 2010 |
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