Rubén hold a lecture on the strategies towards sustainable thin-film lighting systems in the SFB-Kolloquium organized by the U. Heidelberg.
Fruitful scientific discussions with old collaborators (Prof. Kivala and Mastalerz) and new collaborations on going.
Special thanks to Milan for organizing this excellent time!!
A low-cost and easy-to-manufacture lighting technology can be made with light-emitting electrochemical cells. Such cells are thin-film electronic and ionic devices that generate light after a low voltage is applied. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Turin have now used extensive data analysis to create first-class electrochemical cells from copper complexes that emit blue and white light.
Thanks to the fruitful collaboration with Universidad de La Rioja, a new family of sustainable and biogenic electrolytes for lighting has been introduced! Our cellulose-based active layer showed high performance and self-stability.
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We are very pleased to welcome our new team member Ginevra Giobbio.
She is a PhD student working under the supervision of both Dr. Sylvain Gaillard (University of Caen, France) and Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa (Technische Universität München, Germany). This shared project aims at developing new electroluminescent earth abundant transition metal complexes and their implementation in light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC).
We employed chalcogen-bonded p-type semiconducting ribbons as hole transport layers in light-emitting electrochemical cells achieving on par performances with state-of-art semiconductors! Thanks to the great collaboration and the European funding ITN-ETN project STiBNite.
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