{"id":54642,"date":"2009-11-18T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2009-11-18T09:49:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:49:10","slug":"transparent-insulating-nanocoating-could-enable-energy-efficient-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/54642","title":{"rendered":"Transparent insulating nanocoating could enable energy-efficient displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Materials scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have found a new use for a chemical compound that traditionally has been viewed as an electrical conductor. By orienting the compound in a different way, the researchers have transformed it into a thin film insulator, which blocks rather than enhances the flow of electricity while inducing large electric currents elsewhere. The material, called solution-deposited beta-alumina, could have applications in transistor technology and in devices such as electronic books. The discovery is described in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmat\/journal\/v8\/n11\/abs\/nmat2560.html\" ><em>Nature Materials<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;This form of sodium beta-alumina has some very useful characteristics,&#8221; says Howard E. Katz, PhD, chair and professor of materials science and engineering, who supervised the Johns Hopkins team. &#8220;The material is produced in a liquid state, which means it can easily be deposited onto a surface in a precise pattern for the formation of printed circuits,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;But when it&#8217;s heated, it forms a solid, thin transparent film. In addition, it allows us to operate at low voltages, meaning it requires less power to induce useful current.&#8221; Thus, applications could operate with batteries instead of a wall outlet. The transparency and thinness of the material make it ideal for use in the increasingly popular e-book readers, which rely on see-through screens and portable power sources, Katz said. Potential transportation applications include instrument readouts that can be displayed in the windshield of an aircraft or a ground vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/news\/newsid=13444.php\" >Nanowerk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have found a new use for a chemical compound that traditionally has been viewed as an electrical conductor. By orienting the compound in a different way, the researchers have transformed it into a thin film insulator, which blocks rather than enhances the flow of electricity while inducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54642","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}