{"id":298275,"date":"2010-02-09T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-4076741400731794504"},"modified":"2010-02-09T06:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:37:49","slug":"move-over-oleds-scientists-create-cheap-fully-recyclable-lighting-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/298275","title":{"rendered":"Move Over OLEDs: Scientists Create Cheap, Fully Recyclable Lighting Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TreeHugger has a post on using graphene for energy efficient lighting &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/02\/move-over-leds-scientists-fully-recyclable-lighting-material-graphene.php\">Move Over OLEDs: Scientists Create Cheap, Fully Recyclable Lighting Material<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Swedish and American researchers have just developed a fully recyclable lighting component with what Science Daily is terms a &#8220;new super material&#8221;: graphene. Graphene is both inexpensive to produce and is 100% recyclable, and could be used to create glowing wallpaper made out of plastic&#8211;much like )LEDs could. But graphene appears to improve on OLEDs in some very big ways . . .<\/p>\n<p>As you know, we&#8217;ve been big fans of the very efficient, long-lasting Light Emitting Diodes and Organic LED technology. But as Science Daily notes, there are still problems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    Today&#8217;s OLEDs have two drawbacks &#8212; they are relatively expensive to produce, and the transparent electrode consists of the metal alloy indium tin oxide. The latter presents a problem because indium is both rare and expensive and moreover is complicated to recycle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Researchers believe they&#8217;ve found a solution by creating an organic light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) with the transparent electrode made of the &#8220;carbon material graphene.&#8221; Graphene is used instead of conventional metal electrodes&#8211;and since everything in an LEC, including the graphene, can be created from liquid solutions, they will be able to be produced through a printing process. This makes them much more efficient&#8211;and much less expensive&#8211;to create en masse than OLEDs. Researchers involved in the project say that graphene paves the way for cheap production of plastic-based lighting, perhaps for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/02\/move-over-leds-scientists-fully-recyclable-lighting-material-graphene.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/graphene-interconnects.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-4076741400731794504?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B1723OvjXqtXNzk74T0oK49Sr3c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B1723OvjXqtXNzk74T0oK49Sr3c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B1723OvjXqtXNzk74T0oK49Sr3c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B1723OvjXqtXNzk74T0oK49Sr3c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TreeHugger has a post on using graphene for energy efficient lighting &#8211; Move Over OLEDs: Scientists Create Cheap, Fully Recyclable Lighting Material. Swedish and American researchers have just developed a fully recyclable lighting component with what Science Daily is terms a &#8220;new super material&#8221;: graphene. Graphene is both inexpensive to produce and is 100% recyclable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}