Solar Street LightsChinese-American scholars have recently invented an organic semiconductor materials, thin flexible material which is to explore new research found. Such fast conductive material, soft and durable features, is expected to promote light and easy to carry foldable electronic product development.
Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University associate professor of Baozhe Nan has been in use chemical knowledge and methods to develop new materials,solar water heater she has invented the artificial electronic skin soft and sensitive solar cells can be stretched.
Bao Zhenan accept China news agency reporters in the interview that the electronic products used in inorganic materials such as silicon, with conductive fast and strong advantages, but bulky, heavy weight, easy to break but it is inevitable Achilles heel. Use of personal electronic products carrying more and more common to find alternative materials is imperative. New organic semiconductor materials, conductive invented fast, good flexibility, lightweight and durable, can be used to make television and computer displays, electronic circuits and so on.
The new organic semiconductor materials are two of Stanford and Harvard team's results. "Two years ago I went to Harvard academic exchanges, encounters,solar collector Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Alan? Asp like? Gu Zike, we find and create new materials, ideas are so similar, began a collaboration." Baozhe Nan said .
Bao Zhenan Harvard scholars have been completed using the latest theoretical calculation method to guide, and the research team only spent six months in the laboratory synthesis of this new conductive organic materials, very good performance, this often takes several years of the discovery process greatly shortened.
With the current production of LCD TVs and computer monitors the main material of amorphous silicon, this new material is amorphous silicon conductive speed of 30 times. Baozhe Nan said, still some distance to the actual use of time. Although it's a good conductive properties, but solubility is not satisfactory, further research and improvement. "I hope that with the way the industry to manufacture products combine the production of non-vacuum environment, such as the soluble ink made with the printing of large-scale production methods."
China's Bao Zhenan from Nanjing University Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Chicago, has worked at Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies in 2004, taught at Stanford University. Her new organic semiconductor materials research at Stanford University won the International Climate and Energy Program and other funding organizations. "We look forward to using the same method to find high-performance solar cells."
