Novel green technologies for producing organic electronics
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The long-term goal of the proposed Collaborative Events is to build an enterprise of green manufacturing of solution-based organic electronics. Combining their strengths, Canada and California could be the most powerful global players in the rapidly expanding market of organic electronics, which is expected to reach $300 billion per year by 2025. The solution-based manufacturing approach reduces costs and enables the practical fabrication of new consumer products such as roll-up displays for computers and cell phones, flexible solar panels for power portable equipment, low cost electronic labels, and flexible sensors for wearable health-care biotechnology products. The applicants (Lau of UWO in Canada and Graves of UC Berkeley in California) have relevant intellectual properties, technical experience, and the collaborative network to competitively develop innovative technologies to accomplish the goal of further increasing the throughput of production and reducing the consumption of energy and chemicals in solution-based production of organic electronics. To start this development, they will promote their novel value-chain approach of collaborative technology innovation, through their proposed CCSIP Collaborative Events, to the qualified academic and industrial researchers to find the best partners to work with them on adding more intellectual properties to the value chain of green production of organic electronics. Specifically, the proposed Collaborative Events comprise the following: (a) visit by Graves to UWO and four other research institutes for networking and information collection; (b) a workshop at UWO during the visit of Graves for him, Lau and other Canadian researchers to draft their collaboration strategy; (c) visit by Lau and his coworkers to Berkeley, UCSB and two companies in California for networking, information collection, and promotion of the relevant inventions of Lau; (d) a workshop at Berkeley during the visit of Lau for his team, Graves, and other researchers to enrich the collaboration strategy; and (e) one or two follow-up visits by Lau to California to firm up the academic and industrial partners in the follow-up value-chain collaboration. Through these events, the network is expected to expand from the partnership of UWO and Berkeley to the following potential institutional partners: Univ. of Windsor, McMaster Univ., Univ. of Toronto, Institute of Microstructural Sciences/NRC, Univ. of Quebec in Montreal, Rosstech Signals Inc. (Ontario), UCSB, Univ. of Washington, Lam Research Inc., and Applied Materials Inc. These confirmed and potential partners are all active in organic electronics. More than 200 researchers including students, researchers, and managers/administrators in these organizations will participate in the Collaborative Events, learn the novel value-chain approach of collaborative technology innovation, and plan their follow-up collaborative development of green production of organic electronics.