Functional Thin Film Solution Processing

On the Cover
 
                      

Exciton dynamics and effects of structural order in morphology-controlled J-aggregate assemblies.
Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 1806997. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201806997

Two‐dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes): synthesis, properties, and electrochemical energy storage applications. Energy and Environmental Materials, 2020, 3, 29-55.
https://doi.org/10.1002/eem2.12058
 

Two‐dimensional MXenes for lithium‐sulfur batteries. 
InfoMat, 2020, 2(4), 613-638.
https://doi.org/10.1002/inf2.12080

A Universal Approach for Room-Temperature Printing and Coating of 2D Materials.
Advanced Materials, 2022, 34, 2270033
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202270033

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Thanks to advances in materials chemistry, researchers have been able to synthesize new materials that allow solution-based processing of next-generation optoelectronic materials

In Printed Electronics, printing technologies are used to produce various kinds of devices, such as electronic circuits, sensors and solar cells. New challenges arise when small scale laboratory processes are transferred to industrially relevant methods.

In the “Functional Thin Film Solution Processing” group, we address scientific and engineering aspects of solution processing, namely

Our coating laboratory provides infrastructure, workforce and knowhow for the deposition of functional coatings and protection layers on rigid and flexible substrates used for the fabrication of optical and electronic devices.

Available equipment at the coating laboratory will enable the development of thin film coating solutions up to DIN A5 scale. The laboratory will evaluate, develop and offer the best-suited technology and analytic for a given functional coating.

 

Recent publications:

S. Deng et al., Stable MXene dough with ultrahigh solid fraction and excellent redispersibility toward efficient solution processing and industrialization. Advanced Science, 2023, 10(19), 2300660 (10 pp.). DOI: 10.1002/advs.202300660

C. Ongaro et al., Integration of metal meshes as transparent conducting electrodes into perovskite solar cells. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2023, 2300923. DOI: 10.1002/admi.202300923

C. (J.) Zhang et al., Microcup architecture for printing and coating asymmetric 2Dmaterialbased solidstate supercapacitors. Small 2023, 19(32), 2300357 (10 pp.). DOI: 10.1002/smll.202300357

T. Guo et al., Large-Area Smooth Conductive Films Enabled by Scalable Slot-Die Coating of Ti3C2Tx MXene Aqueous Inks, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 2213183, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202213183

T. Guo et al., Rational Design of Ti3C2Tx MXene Inks for Conductive, Transparent Films, ACS Nano 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c11180

S. Deng et al., Unraveling Polysulfide's Adsorption and Electrocatalytic Conversion on Metal Oxides for Li-S Batteries, Advanced Science 2023, 10, 2204930, DOI: 10.1002/advs.202204930

 

Group Leader

Dr. Jakob Heier

Phone: +41 58 765 4356
jakob.heier@empa.ch

 

NEWS

September 2023: We welcome Joanna Szymanska to our group. Joanna is exchange PhD student and will stay with us for 3 month.

September 2023: We welcome Junjie Cai to our group. Junjie is doing her master thesis on Perovskite solar cells with us.

Oktober 2023: We welcome Oliver Bruni to our group. Oliver is doing his Civil Service on the topic "Effiziente umweltfreundliche Solarenergie"

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