Recently Discovered Plastic Material can Conduct Electricity

August 11th, 2009

Recently Discovered Plastic Material can Conduct Electricity

On MyGreenTreasure we talked several times about plastics with special properties, properties that are very useful in increasing efficiency of various products. In this post I will present a special plastic material, recently discovered that could change many things in our future life.

If any researcher will read the title of this post will become very interested to read more, because until now, a similar plastic material, with same properties, never existed. “Plastic materials, will never conduct electricity!” , they will say. But it’s not like that!…

A new scientific study made by Rhett Smith an assistant chemistry professor at Clemson, shows that a new plastic material, recently discovered, can conduct electricity. Using these materials, people could find millions of applications for this electricity plastic-conductor. Our portable devices, TVs and many other types of electronic displays could be improved due to this plastic material.

The most important thing that could be achieved using this intelligent plastic material, is developing thin-film solar cells. Using this plastic material, solar technology could be revolutionized by increasing solar cells efficiency and reducing manufacturing costs.

The researcher was founded by National Science Foundation CAREER Award to continue this study and to find more advanced properties of this new plastic material. Rhett Smith think that plastic electronic technologies, is an area that should be studied deeply, so , we hope that he will be able to do this thing with the $598.000 invested by National Science Foundation.

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