{"id":45612,"date":"2023-03-22T04:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T05:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/?p=45612"},"modified":"2023-03-22T06:13:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T06:13:13","slug":"rmit-researchers-look-to-scale-up-zinc-oxide-inks-for-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/2023\/03\/22\/rmit-researchers-look-to-scale-up-zinc-oxide-inks-for-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"RMIT researchers look to scale up zinc oxide inks for electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>An international team, led by RMIT University researchers, has reviewed the production methods and current applications of zinc oxide nanocrystals in the journal <\/span><i><span>Chemical Reviews<\/span><\/i><span>, publishing findings that suggest potential uses for the material in electronic products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Zinc oxide is a semiconductor with \u201cinteresting properties have found use in optics, electronics, catalysis, sensing, as well as biomedicine and microbiology\u201d according to the team, which was led by Associate Professor Enrico Della Gaspera and Dr Joel van Embden from RMIT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cProgress in nanotechnology has enabled us to greatly improve and adapt the properties and performances of zinc oxide by making it super small, and with well-defined features,\u201d said Della Gaspera in a statement on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"wooco-content wooco-target\" id=\"wooco-386924909\" data-wooco-trackid=\"61053\" data-wooco-trackbid=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/australianmanufacturingweek.com.au\/?utm_source=aumanufacturing.com.au&amp;utm_medium=incontentbanner&amp;utm_campaign=visprom_2022&amp;utm_content=728x90\" class=\"adv-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aumanufacturing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1710-AMW-Mel23-AU-Manufacturing-728x90-1-e1678014756241.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cTiny and versatile particles of zinc oxide can now be prepared with exceptional control of their size, shape and chemical composition at the nanoscale,\u201d added van Embden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Zinc oxide nanocrystals can be formulated into inks and \u2013 like ink-jet printing \u2013 deposited as a coating. The coating can be thousands of times shallower than a paint layer.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Such coatings can be made highly transparent to visible light, but highly electrically conductive at the same time. These were properties essential for touchscreens, said Della Gaspera. He added that zinc oxide had \u201crapidly risen\u201d through nanotechnology to be \u201cone of the most important materials of this century\u201d after early excitement in the 1970s and 1980s in the semiconductor industry.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The release highlights the many potential uses of zinc oxide nanocrystals, particularly in bendable electronics. Challenges in scalability remained an issue, with the university currently seeking industrial partners for this purpose, as was \u201cthe shortfall in electrical conductivity that nanocrystal coatings\u201d versus industry benchmarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe and other scientists around the world are working towards addressing these challenges and good progress is being made,\u201d Della Gaspera said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI am confident that, with the right partnership, these challenges can be solved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s \u201cColloidal Approaches to Zinc Oxide Nanocrystals\u201d paper, published in December, can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acs.chemrev.2c00456\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture: <span>Della Gaspera <\/span>and <span>van Embden (supplied)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team, led by RMIT University researchers, has reviewed the production methods and current<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45613,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45612\/revisions\/45613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}