OLEDs were also limited by the life span of organic materials that transferred light.
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Artificial photosynthesis is the direct conversion from CO2 into organic materials, which can solve both of these problems.
Other instruments will test for atomic elements, organic materials, radiation and water.
Both involve heating organic materials in a vacuum until they break down into carbon and vapors that can be condensed into a low-grade fuel oil.
His maintenance-free bike uses a "secret" mix of organic materials to make it waterproof and fireproof, and is then lacquered to give it a friendlier appearance.
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The trade-off is the organic materials have to shine brighter, meaning an OLED-TV made this way will require more power than one made with the factory process used for smaller screens.
That project will seek to return samples of organic materials from an asteroid to help scientists understand how the building blocks for life may have been seeded on the early Earth.
Because it uses organic materials, any carbon dioxide released during the generation of energy is offset by that absorbed during the plant's life, so the process as a whole is broadly balanced, or "carbon neutral".
Dr Jiang reckoned that a cold plasma, particularly one rich in oxygen ions (which are notoriously destructive of organic materials), would be enough to do the job of breaking up a biofilm without harming the patient.
Fortunately for the future of the battery, it turns out its color molecules are also carriers of carbonyl and hydroxyl groups that make it ripe for use as an electrode and that purpurin is far easier to process than other organic materials: "These aromatic systems are electron-rich molecules that easily coordinate with lithium, " said CCNY Professor George John.
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Both firms have developed organic electronic materials that are soluble and so can be deposited using screen printing and inkjet technologies.
Wells Mason's chairs, benches, and tables are simultaneously playful and--with their stark joining of organic and man-made materials (such as the Baltic birch, stainless steel, and fiberboard embedded in a telephone pole in the Shelf Life chair, bottom)--aesthetically and intellectually challenging.
Umasi, a collection of work by artist Wells Mason, blurs the line between sculpture and furniture, with man-made materials such as stainless steel and tempered glass colliding with organic (exquisitely finished woods) and even obviously salvaged materials (a telephone pole, recycled rubber, bicycle parts).
Covas highlights the growth potential that ROG has through organic means, such as their booming circuit materials division.
They use natural, organic, sustainably harvested, renewable, pure raw materials.
The polyurethanes, performance products, advanced materials and textile effects segments manufacture and supply organic chemicals, while the pigments segment produces inorganic chemicals.
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He changed materials, switching in 1996 from conventional to organic cotton despite the fact that it initially tripled his supply costs because it was less harmful to the environment.
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That's Organic Light Emitting Transistor, tech that researcher Michele Muccini at the Institute of Nanustructured Materials has just proven can be between two and 100 times as efficient as OLED.
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The material is an organic photovoltaic semiconductor (called rr-P3HT) which, unlike the metal or silicon-based materials used until now for such biotechnological interfaces, is soft, light, flexible and highly biocompatible and naturally sensitive to visible light.
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