Project description
Green advances in organic electronics
The development of organic electronic devices (OEs) faces challenges related to cost, energy consumption, and environmental impact. With this in mind, the ERC-funded SmolSUB project introduces a new, eco-friendly, and low-cost approach to testing organic materials on various substrates. Its sublimation devices enable the direct deposition of molecules under mild conditions, accelerating the discovery of OEs such as organic transistors, sensors, OLEDs, and solar cells. This method is applicable across laboratories and industries, promising advancements in wearable, imperceptible, and smart electronics. By combining flexibility, stretchability, and sustainability, SmolSUB aims to reshape OE production and commercialisation, fostering collaborations with companies to bring these innovations to market.
Objective
SmolSUB is a key tool in the progress of organic electronic devices (OEs). SmolSUB promotes the creation/discovery of new OEs, basic skeletons in organic field-effect transistors, (bio)sensors, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic solar cells (OSCs), soft-robotics, among others. SmolSUB presents a new, greener, and low-cost vision (in terms of materials, waste and energy required) in the testing of organic electronic materials on substrates of interest, using a simple methodology, applicable at different scales (basic laboratories and industry), inclusive with other existing ones and of fast execution, projecting a profound change in how to create, analyse and apply new OEs (from the combination of materials to their applications).
SmolSUB is based on strategically designed sublimation devices, which under mild and eco-friendly conditions, allow the direct deposition of useful organic molecules on substrates of all kinds. The project foresees its usefulness in the creation of wearable electronics, imperceptible electronics, and smart packaging, among other applications, and will enhance the creation of new devices with flexibility and stretchability properties, born from the molecule+substrate synergy.
SmolSUB seeks the validation of this methodology and the launch and real projection of commercialisation of the products presented here (through spin-offs or agreements with companies).
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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HORIZON-ERC-POC - HORIZON ERC Proof of Concept Grants
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Call for proposal
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28006 MADRID
Spain
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