{"id":181198,"date":"2024-01-23T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-advance-affordable-sustainable-solution-for-flat-panel-displays-and-wearable-tech"},"modified":"2024-01-23T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:24:53","slug":"scientists-advance-affordable-sustainable-solution-for-flat-panel-displays-and-wearable-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-advance-affordable-sustainable-solution-for-flat-panel-displays-and-wearable-tech","title":{"rendered":"Scientists advance affordable, sustainable solution for flat-panel displays and wearable tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-advance-affordable-sustainable-solution-for-flat-panel-displays-and-wearable-tech3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed \u201csupramolecular ink,\u201d a new technology for use in OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays or other electronic devices. Made of inexpensive, Earth-abundant elements instead of costly scarce metals, supramolecular ink could enable more affordable and environmentally sustainable flat-panel screens and electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy replacing precious metals with Earth-abundant materials, our <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/supramolecular\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">supramolecular<\/a> ink technology could be a game changer for the OLED <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/display\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">display<\/a> industry,\u201d said principal investigator Peidong Yang, a faculty senior scientist in Berkeley Lab\u2019s Materials <i>Science<\/i>s Division and professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s even more exciting is that the technology could also extend its reach to organic printable films for the fabrication of wearable devices as well as luminescent art and sculpture,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed \u201csupramolecular ink,\u201d a new technology for use in OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays or other electronic devices. Made of inexpensive, Earth-abundant elements instead of costly scarce metals, supramolecular ink could enable more affordable and environmentally sustainable flat-panel screens and electronic devices. \u201cBy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}