Striding towards a new dawn for electronics
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 08:35
in Physics & Chemistry
Conductive polymers are plastic materials with high electrical conductivity that promise to revolutionise a wide range of products including TV displays, solar cells, and biomedical sensors. A team of McGill University researchers have now reported how to visualise and study the process of energy transport along one single conductive polymer molecule at a time, a key step towards bringing these exciting new applications to market. 'We may easily study energy transport in a cable as thick as a hair, but imagine studying this process in a single polymer molecule, whose thickness is one-millionth of that!' said Dr Gonzalo Cosa of McGill's Department of Chemistry, lead researcher...